Cleveland Museum of Art
Roundels with Hunters
- Date
- 800s
- Medium
- Silk: samite weave
- Culture
- Eastern Iran or Central Asia
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 150895
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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. This textile consists of two fragments mounted together ( CMA 1982.284 and CMA 1959.124 ).
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- Mrs. Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France | ?-1982: (Goumaronart, Inc, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art). | 1982-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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