Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment
- Date
- before 1981
- Medium
- Silk: compound tabby
- Culture
- Iran, style of the Abbasid period (750–1258)
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 150442
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The fragment preserves two oval compartments from a design of linked ovals each containing a recumbent ibex. The ibexes are addorsed linking each compartment to the next is a concentric oval device containing in the center a crescent moon. The design in pale blue, tan, and cream on a deep navy blue ground is oriented at right angles to the warp.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Provenance
- ?-1981: (Milton Girod [1922-2011], La Jaille Chahaignes-sur-Loir, Sarthe, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1981-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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