Fragment from the Mantle of Don Felipe

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

1275/1300

Spain (Villalcázar de Sirga)

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Department: Textiles

Culture: Islamic
Title: Fragment from the Mantle of Don Felipe
Places: Spain (Object made in), Villalcázar de Sirga (Object found in)
Date: Made 1275-1300
Medium: 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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Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 37, pl. 19.
Covadonga Suarez Smith and 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): 161-164.
Covadonga Suarez Smith and 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): 231-240
Christa Mayer Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 14-15, no. 143.
Art Institute of Chicago. “Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.” Museum Studies, vol. 30, no. 2 ( 2004): cat. no. 8.

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, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Collection, Feb. 17–May 2, 1993.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 141, Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 20, 2004–Jan. 4, 2005.

Dikran G. Kelekian, New York, by Feb. 27, 1950 [incoming receipt R9879, Feb. 27, 1950; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

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