Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment with crowned lions, palmettes, and escutcheons
- Date
- 1400s-1500s
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Culture
- Spain, Granada
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Pairs of yellow lions are framed beneath arches formed by elaborate green leaves in a sumptuous repeated pattern. The city of Granada in southern Spain, where the Alhambra palace stood, continued to be a major center for silk production and commerce through the 1500s. Because the upside-down shields contain no Arabic inscriptions, it was probably made after the fall of the last Muslim sultan to the Christian King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492.
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