About This Artwork
FragmentMamluk period (1250–1517), 14th/15th century
Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps in plain interlacings
20.8 x 38.2 cm (8 1/4 x 15 in.)
Weft repeat: 14.2 cm (5 5/8 in.)
Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment, 1982.1461
Textiles
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Gift, Bequest and Purchase: A Selection of Textile Acquisitions from 1982–1987," March 18–August 14, 1989
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century," September 27, 1989–January 22, 1990
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 142, "The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation," September 14–December 18, 2006
Publication History
Julius Lessing. Die Gewebe-Sammlung des Kunstgewerbe Museums Berlin (Berlin: E. Wasmuth, 1900), vol. 4, pl. 130.
Otto Von Falke. Kustgeschichte der Seidenwebere (Berlin, 1913), pl. 378 (English ed. fig. 325).
Ernst K°hnel. Islamische Stoffe aus Aegyptischen Grôbern (Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1927), no. 25.
H. Heinrich Schmidt. "Damaste der Mamlukenzeit." Ars Islamica I (February 1934), pp. 99-109.
The Art Institute of Chicago. "The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation" Museum Studies, vol. 33, no. 1 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007), p. 60.