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Embroidered border and field of animals in large roundels

Embroidered border and field of animals in large roundels

1000s-1100s
plain weave: silk warp and cotton weft (mulham); embroidery, couched, split, running, and outline stitches: silk and gold thread
Overall: 26.7 x 12.4 cm (10 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1952.257
Location: not on view
  • Jacques Matossian, Cairo; Mme. Paul Mallon, Paris.
  • 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 25159914.
    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
  • The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).
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