The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Vestment fragment with stars in staggered squares

Vestment fragment with stars in staggered squares

1200s
Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth
Overall: 28.6 x 26.7 cm (11 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.); Mounted: 38.7 x 36.8 cm (15 1/4 x 14 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1928.648
Location: not on view

Description

Alternating rows of two different forms of interlacing stars set within square frames convey a jewel-like brilliance with gold and contrasting colors. This fragment was reused in an ecclesiastical vestment that made its way to the cathedral at Lleida in Catalonia, in northeastern Spain. A document dated 1275 records that the Bishop of Lleida and his companions brought “[A] complete set of vestments, of Muslim manufacture, which ornaments they dedicated to San Valero.”
  • originally from San Valero, Lerida, Spain
    ?-1928
    (Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Venice, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1928-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Hispano-Moresque Silks from the Vestments of San Valero." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 4 (1929): 68-75. p. 68-70, 74 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. 1944. p. 16, no. 115
    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. 102, no. 79
    Flury-Lemberg, Mechthild. Spuren kostbarer Gewebe. Riggisberg: Die Stiftung, 1995. p. 116
    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. 186, fig. 5.18; Mentioned: P.185-186
  • Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020).
    Vestement of San Valero of Llerida. Abegg-Stiftung, Bern, Switzerland (organizer) (May 3-November 1, 1992).
    Vestment of San Valero of Llerida. Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland (May 3-November 1, 1992).
    2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944).
    The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
  • {{cite web|title=Vestment fragment with stars in staggered squares|url=false|author=|year=1200s|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1928.648