Cleveland Museum of Art
Samite fragment with hunters
- Date
- 800s
- Medium
- Silk: compound twill
- Culture
- Eastern Iran or Central Asia
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 148006
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This silk depicts pairs of horsemen hunting ibexes (mountain goats). The ibexes and two pairs of rabbits originally filled the spaces between rows of large floral roundels. Portions of the roundels are preserved at the top and bottom. Although the design was greatly influenced by silks from Egypt and Syria, the abstract style is typically Sogdian, from an area in Central Asia. This is one of many Sogdian silks that were traded to Europe and eventually preserved in church treasuries.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1974: (Dr. Emil Delmar [1876–1959], Budapest, Hungary, and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1974–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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