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Lampas with scenes of wild animals

1500s

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Iran, Safavid period

(1501–1722)

Silk and gold: lampas weave, brocaded

Overall: 19 x 8.5 cm (7 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.38.d

Location

not on view

Provenance

?-1939

H. [Herman] A. Elsberg [1869–1938], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1939-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Pope, Arthur Upham, Phyllis Ackerman, and Theodore Bestermann. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. London: Oxford University Press, 1938. Vol. VI, Pl. 1041

Underhill, Gertrude. “Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 26, no. 9, 1939, pp. 143–146. Mentioned: p. 146

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. Reproduced: pl. 64

Woven Treasures of Persian Art; Persian Textiles from the 6th to the 19th Century. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1959. Mentioned: p. 35, cat. no. 55

Exhibition history

2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944); Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 12-June 4, 1944); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (January 9-February 29, 1944).

Woven Treasures of Persian Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, CA (April 1-May 23, 1959).

Islamic Art Across the World. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (June 18-October 1, 1970).

Islamic Art. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (June 15-October 1, 1970).