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Fragment with star pattern and griffins

950–1050

Iraq or Iran, Buyid period

Silk: plain weave variation with supplementary weft

Overall: 40.3 x 30.5 cm (15 7/8 x 12 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1941.292

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Description

This fragment's design consists of interlaced bands, bordered with inner band of foliate ornament, forming an eight-pointed star with center of floriated cross and flanked in four corner compartments by winged griffins. It was woven in green and white silk. The warp in green silk has two wefts, one of green silk and one of white silk floss for the design.

Provenance

?–1941

(Mrs. Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1941–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Underhill, Gertrude. "A Tenth-Century Byzantine Silk from Antioch." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 1 (1942): 6-7. pp. 6–7 www.jstor.org

Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944. no. 20, pl. 7

Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947. no. 771

Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952. p. 113, no. 114

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 686 archive.org

Evans, Helen C., and William D. Wixom. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 412

Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland, OH; New Haven, CT: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. Reproduced: p. 128, fig. 4.6, 138; Mentioned: p. 136

Exhibition history

Early Christian and Byzantine Art. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD (April 25-June 22, 1947).

2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944).

Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).

The Glory of Byzantium. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3-July 6, 1997).

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Fragment with star pattern and griffins

Fragment with star pattern and griffins

Iraq or Iran, Buyid period

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