Lampas with heraldry of Castile and León, from a royal Christian robe (1200–1325): Art, History and Details

Lampas with heraldry of Castile and León, from a royal Christian robe (1200–1325) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Opulent gold thread forms heraldic shields of a Spanish king on a palmette ground. The shield bears the heraldic device of Castile and Leon, the castle and lion, which had decorated imperial Spanish garments for several centuries. The use of coats of arms was a European convention that was never adopted by the Muslims.

Object facts

• Title: Lampas with heraldry of Castile and León, from a royal Christian robe
• Date: 1200–1325
• Culture: Spain, Granada, Nasrid period
• Type: Textile
• Technique: lampas: silk and gold thread
• Dimensions: Overall: 10.2 x 54.9 cm (4 x 21 5/8 in.); Mounted: 17.8 x 62.9 cm (7 x 24 3/4 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1939.48

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 (November 1939): 143–146.
• 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. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944.
• Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.

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