
Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment
- Date
- before 1952
- Medium
- Silk: compound tabby
- Culture
- Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 130308
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Large roundels with pearl borders enclose eight palmette trees radiating from a central abstract floral motif. The large roundels are linked to each other along their vertical and horizontal axes by small roundels, also having pearl borders, that enclose a square and four crescents. Between these links, the large roundels are interrupted by small roundels enclosing single recumbent ibexes. The pattern, which is completely reversible, appears in tan on a dark blue background, or vice versa.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- Originally reported as having been found in Bibi Shahr Banu, near Rayy, Iran | ?-1952: (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
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