Cap with striped inscribed silk
1300s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Cap with striped inscribed silk, 1300s. Egypt or Syria, Mamluk period, probably Sultanate of Nasir al-Din Muhammad, 1293-1341. Silk: lampas; overall: 11.4 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1985.5 Blue and white silk has been pieced to form a hat with the joins concealed by pink plaited ribbons. Bands of crescent moons alternate first with band of running deer and lions and then with band of Arabic inscriptions written in Naskhi script.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Silk: lampas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 11.4 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: izz li-mawlana al-sultan al-Malik al-Nasir Translation: Glory to our lord sultan al-Malik al-Nasir
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1985.5
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries, Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900, Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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