Medallions with confronting peacocks

Cleveland Museum of Art

Medallions with confronting peacocks

Date
1660–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Culture
Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
Department
Textiles
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
144226

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This textile preserves six ovals aligned in two vertical columns; the top two ovals are fragmentary. Columns are separated by two guard lines that are interrupted by smaller vertical almond-shaped motifs; these are tangent to the large ovals at the widest point. Each large oval, bordered by a band of floriated Kufic, has a central ogival medallion, also bordered with floriated Kufic, with palmettes at each end. The medallions are placed on a ground of white on white with small aligned circles. Interspaces between large ovals are filled with pairs of opposed palmette trees flanked at each end with confronting birds in flight.

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Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mallon
Provenance
?-1968: Paul [1884–1975] and Marguerite Mallon [d. 1977], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1968-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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