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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Date
before 1948
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Culture
Iran, Rayy, late 12th or early 13th century
Department
Textiles
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
126296

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On a blue ground is a pattern in white (now faded to cream) and red (now beige) of paired confronted birds repeated in staggered horizontal rows against scrolling foliation.

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Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
belongs to a group of textiles which were originally reported to have been found in a tomb in the necropolis at Rayy. | ?-1948: (Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1948-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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