Fragment with palmette arches with Alhambra wall pattern
1300s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Fragment with palmette arches with Alhambra wall pattern, 1300s. Spain, Granada. Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave; overall: 48.3 x 25.4 cm (19 x 10 in.); mounted: 58.1 x 35.2 cm (22 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.35
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave
- Medium
- silk, gilt-metal, thread, lampas, weave
- Dimensions
- Overall: 48.3 x 25.4 cm (19 x 10 in.); Mounted: 58.1 x 35.2 cm (22 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: horizontal rows of staggered arch-like forms enclose knotted and interlaced Kufic inscriptions: "Success."
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1939.35
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- 2000 Years of Silk Weaving, Islamic Gallery 207 Rotation, Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900, Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation), <em>Masterpieces of the Weavers' Art</em>. Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI (October 7-November 3, 1957)., Gallery 207 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 19, 2001-June 3, 2002).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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