The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of August 8, 2022

Silk Fragment

1350–99

Italy, second half of 14th century

Silk and gold thread; lampas weave

Overall: 20.3 x 40.6 cm (8 x 16 in.); Mounted: 30.5 x 50.8 cm (12 x 20 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1940.1193

Location

not on view

Description

This fragment depicts parallel undulating vines with large peonies with yellow centers, smaller peonies with blue centers, and clusters of flowers.

Provenance
?–1940
(Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1940–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Fourteenth-Century Italian Silks." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 9 (1941): 138-43. p. 138-39 www.jstor.org
Neils, Jenifer. "The Twain Shall Meet." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59. no. 72 www.jstor.org
Wardwell, Anne E. "Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 1 (1987): 2-35. p. 24-25, fig. 31 www.jstor.org
Korkow, Cory. "Textiles." In William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise. Cory Korkow and Victoria Hepburn, 8-23. Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017 . Mentioned: p. 19; reproduced: p. 20, fig. 14.
Exhibition history

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

William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2017-January 14, 2019).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1940.1193