Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment
- Date
- before 1961
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Culture
- Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136851
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The fragment preserves a tree of life flanked by a pair of large confronted simurghs , resembling peacocks, that grasp ibexes in their talons. A pair of small goats stand confronted and regardant at the base of the tree. Behind each ibex is a small palmette tree. The fragment constitutes the center third of a complete loom piece. The pattern is dark purplish brown on a golden brown ground.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- Originally reported as having been found near Bibi Shahr Banu, near Rayy, Iran | ?-1961: (Mme. Paul [Margurerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1961-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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