Fragments from a Garment with Inscription (1900s): Art, History and Details

Fragments from a Garment with Inscription (1900s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

These two fragments are a portion of a sleeve and the neck edge of a garment. Centered below the neckline is a T-shaped cartouche bordered with a block motif and enclosing two lines of inscription.

Object facts

• Title: Fragments from a Garment with Inscription
• Date: 1900s
• Culture: Iran or Iraq
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: lampas weave, brocaded
• Dimensions: Average: 26.5 x 48.7 cm (10 7/16 x 19 3/16 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1986.176

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. G. Kay Robertson in memory of William J. Robertson

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1986.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 74, no. 2, 1987, pp. 38–79.

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