Fragment

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

14th century

Middle East or Spain or Italy

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Islamic
Title: Fragment
Origin: Italy
Date: Made 1301–1400
Medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps, supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterned ground wefts
Dimensions: 16.1 × 19.1 cm (6 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.) Repeat: 5.3 × 6.8 cm (2 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Alstair Bradley Martin
Reference Number: 1952.1252
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]Publications of the Art Institute’s Object
Mayer, Christa Charlotte. Masterpieces of Western Textiles (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), p. 51, pl. 32.
Otavsky, Karel. Mittelalterliche Textilen I. Vol. I. Switzerland: Abegg-Stiftung Riggisberg, 1995, pg. 226.
Wardwell, “Panni Tartarici. Eastern Islamic Silks Woven With Gold and Silver (13th and 14th Centuries),” Islamic Art 3, 1988, pp. 95-173, fig. 59.
Publications of Related Fragments *
*Appears to have the same pattern or design but whether or not the fragment comes from the same textile as the Art Institute is unknown.
Errera, Isabelle. Catalogue d’Etoffes Anciennes, 1927, No. 64.
Museum Inventories with Related Fragments
Abegg-Stiftung Riggisberg, inv. No. 2373
Museu Textil I d’Indumentaria, Barcelona 23.780
Kunstgewerbemuseum, inv. No. 62,99
Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels (see Errera 1927, pg. 78, cat. No. 64b)
Cleveland Museum of Art, inv. No. 29.905
Detroit Institute of Arts, inv. No. 65.350
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, T.86.1910
Musee Naional du Money Age et des Thermes de Cluny, inv. No. 21, 849.

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
The Art Institute of Chicago, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, September 27, 1989–January 22, 1990

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