Lampas with foliate roundels (1300s): Art, History and Details

Lampas with foliate roundels (1300s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This textile shows the development of the Hispano-Moresque style in the 1300s. The bright green, blue, white, and gold design against a rich red ground produces a jewel-like quality that was not seen again after the end of the century.

Object facts

• Title: Lampas with foliate roundels
• Date: 1300s
• Culture: Spain, Granada, Nasrid period
• Type: Textile
• Technique: lampas: silk and gold thread
• Dimensions: Overall: 31.4 x 22.9 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.); Mounted: 34.3 x 27.9 cm (13 1/2 x 11 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1939.42

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 9 (1939): 143-46.
• Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1944.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.

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