Tunic with Ornamental Inscription (1329–1955): Art, History and Details

Tunic with Ornamental Inscription (1329–1955) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The sleeves, neck opening, and most of the front area nearly to waist are preserved; the back has large areas missing. The foliated inscription bands on the sleeves near the shoulder seams are in white (faded from blue) on a pink and brown ground.

Object facts

• Title: Tunic with Ornamental Inscription
• Date: 1329–1955
• Culture: Iran or Iraq
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: lampas weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 127 x 149.8 cm (50 x 59 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1968.230

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Annual Report for 1968.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 56, no. 6, 1969, pp. 209–248.
• Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. "Reevaluating the Date of the "Buyid" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis." Ars Orientalis 22 (1992): 1-41.

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