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Fragment with arcade and palmettes
1200s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Although geometric patterns were fashionable in all media throughout the Islamic world, examples in textiles are the most abundant from Islamic Spain. In this fragment, gold-thread strapwork interlaces to form stars above columns that frame colorful palmette leaves in a fine tapestry weave.
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- Title: Fragment with arcade and palmettes
- Date Created: 1200s
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 17.8 x 10.8 cm (7 x 4 1/4 in.); Mounted: 26.4 x 19.7 cm (10 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: (Charles D. Kelekian, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Textile
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.105
- Medium: Silk and gold thread: tapestry weave
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: Spain, probably Granada
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: T - Islamic
- Accession Number: 1952.105
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