Silk and Gold Textile (1360–1400): Art, History and Details

Silk and Gold Textile (1360–1400) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Lucca, Venice, Florence, Bologna, and Genoa are known to have been the principal silk weaving cities in Italy during the 14th and 15th centuries. It is not possible, however, to distinguish which silks were woven in each city. Silks like these were sold to royalty, nobility, and churches throughout Europe by Italian merchants in Bruges, Antwerp, Paris, London, and Avignon.

Object facts

• Title: Silk and Gold Textile
• Date: 1360–1400
• Culture: Italy, last third of the 14th century
• Type: Textile
• Technique: lampas weave, silk and gold thread
• Dimensions: Overall: 26.7 x 33.2 cm (10 1/2 x 13 1/16 in.)
• Collection: Textiles
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1942.1078

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Wardwell, A. (1987). Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 74(1), 2-35.

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