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Embroidered border and field of animals in large roundels

1000s-1100s

Iraq, probably Baghdad, Seljuk period

Plain weave: silk warp and cotton weft (mulham); embroidery, couched, split, running, and outline stitches: silk and gold thread

Overall: 40 x 26 cm (15 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1952.257

Location

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Provenance

Jacques Matossian, Cairo; Mme. Paul Mallon, Paris.

Citations

Lamm, C. J. Cotton in Mediaeval Textiles of the Near East. Paris: P. Geuthner, 1937. p. 126

Wiet, Gaston. 1937. “Tissus Brodes Mesopotamiens.” Ars Islamica 4: 54–63. p. 43-62, fig. 2

Niño, Felipa. Las mitras de Roda. Madrid: Instituto Diego Velazquez, 1941. p. 143

Neils, Jenifer. "The Twain Shall Meet." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59. no. 61 www.jstor.org

Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. Reproduced: P. 158, fig. 4.30; Mentioned: P. 156

Exhibition history

The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).

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