The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 29, 2023

Brocaded Silk Fragment

c. 1360–1390

Italy, 14th century

Lampas weave, brocaded; silk and metal thread

Overall: 41.9 x 15.2 cm (16 1/2 x 6 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1919.29

Location

not on view

Citations
"Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 2 (1919): 37-38. Mentioned: p. 37 www.jstor.org
Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” Textile History 19 (1). 1988. p. 3-22
Exhibition history

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

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1919.29