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Roundels with Hunters

Date: 800s
Medium: Silk: samite weave
Culture: Eastern Iran or Central Asia
Department: Textiles
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 135579

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This textile consists of two fragments mounted together. They are woven with floral roundels that enclose horsemen hunting lions. The theme of riders hunting with lances, the floral frames of the roundels, and the costumes of the hunters were all inspired by silks from the Byzantine world. The stiff, abstracted style, however, is characteristic of Sogdian silks, woven in Sogdiana in Central Asia and often traded to distant markets. These fragments were preserved in a grave in Egypt where they were found sewn as ornaments onto a tunic. The two roundels have different diameters, even though the number of warps per repeat is the same.

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Credit line: Gift of The Textile Art Alliance
Provenance: ?-1959: (Mrs. Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Textile Art Alliance for gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1959-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH