On loan to Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of African Art in Washington for Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
On loan to Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of African Art in Washington for Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk, bands of plain weave with inner warps and complementary weft plain weave with inner warps
Inscriptions
Kufic inscription (translation): Blessing
Dimensions
33.9 × 12.1 cm (13 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Reference Number
1950.1150
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Mayer, Christa. Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), pg. 37, pl. 19.
Smith, Covadonga Suarez & Rosa María de los Santos Rodríguez. “Investigación museológica acerca de los fragmentos de tejido pertenecientes a la capa del infante Don Felipe (s. XIII),” Boletín de la ANABAD, ISSN 0210-4164, Tomo 47, Nº 1, 1997, pages 161-164.
Smith, Covadonga Suarez & Rosa María de los Santos Rodríguez. “Informe técnico sobre los trabajos de conservación y restauración de la capa del Infante don Felipe (s. XIII).” Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, ISSN 0212-5544, Tomo 15, Nº 1-2, 1997, págs. 231-240
Thurman, Christa Mayer. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), pp. 14-15, no. 143.
The Art Institute of Chicago. “Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.” Museum Studies, vol. 30, no. 2 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2004), cat. no. 8.
Publications of Related Fragments*
*In this case research undertaken by conservators in Spain indicate that these fragments once belonged to the same garment.
Badia, D. Francisco Miguel. Catalogue de la Collection de Tissus anciens, Barcelona, 1900, pl. XIII, no. 103.
Cooper Union Chronicle, vol. 1, no. 10, 1943, fig. 12.
Hispanic Society of America. Notes Hispanic. N.Y.: 1943, pg. 119.
May, Florence. Silk Textiles of Spain, N.Y., 1957, pg. 96, fig. 66.
Roland. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving Catalogue, N.Y., 1944, pl. 34, no. 121.
Weibel, A. 2000 Years of Textiles. N.Y., 1952, no. 85.
Related Fragments:
(Determined to be from the same mantle by Covadonga Suarez & Rosa Maria; published findings in 1997; correspondence with Mrs. Thurman in Object File)
Cooper Union Museum, inv. No. 1902-1-978
Victoria & Albert Museum, inv. No. 796-1893
Instituto Valencia de Don Juan Madrid, inv. No. 2069
Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, inv. No. Tx.557
Musees de la Chambre de Comerce et d’Industrie de Lyon, inv. No. 2927C-910.XII.1
Museo Arqueologica Nacional Madrid, inv. No. 51016
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
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
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Collection, February 17–May 2, 1993
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 141, “Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” September 20, 2004–January 4, 2005
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