Collection record · Dress & textiles
Cloth of Gold: Displayed Falcons
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated mid-1200s. Recorded culture or place: Central Asia.
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- Museum title
- Cloth of Gold: Displayed Falcons
- Date
- mid-1200s
- Culture / origin
- Central Asia
- Materials and technique
- Silk and gold thread, lampas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 57.5 x 18.4 cm (22 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.); Mounted: 67.9 x 29.8 cm (26 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1996.297
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Mongol ceremonial robes, known as zhisun, were made from textiles woven with gold and silk of one color. These were given by Mongol emperors to members of the court to be worn during festivals and on important occasions that usually included lavish banquets. Like the Winged Lions and Griffins (CMA 1989.50), the design of this silk is a uniquely Central Asian synthesis of eastern Iranian and Chinese elements. Motifs and technical details shared by the two silks, moreover, leave no doubt that they were produced in the same city.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Edward L. Whittemore Fund · CC0
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