Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment
- Date
- 1300s
- Medium
- Silk and gold thread; lampas
- Culture
- Iran or Iraq ?, Mongol period, 14th century
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
On this textile fragment, a pair of phoenixes, affronted and nonregardant, flanking a floral motif are framed in an ogive formed by a vine with trifoliate leaves. This, in turn, is framed with a scrolling vine with leaves and pairs of small birds. The design is in Cyprian gold on a coral ground.
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