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Collection Online as of April 23, 2024

Silk fragments

Silk fragments

1000s-1100s
samite: silk
Overall: 97.8 x 56.5 cm (38 1/2 x 22 1/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1976.76
Location: not on view
  • CMA Bulletin, "Year in Review for 1976," LXIV (Feb. 1977) p. 78, no. 130.
    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. 150, fig. 4.21; Mentioned: P. 33, 148, 154-5, 202
    Winter, Meredyth Lynn. "Put a Bird on It: What an Aviary Preoccupation Reveals about Medieval Silks." The Textile Museum Journal 45 (2018): 60-83. Reproduced: . p. 64, fig. 3
  • Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).
    Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).
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