Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars
- Date
- before 1949
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Culture
- Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037–1194)
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The design consists of aligned large-scale octagons and four-pointed star-shaped interspaces filled with leafy scrolls. Each octagon encloses pairs of regardant gazelles and non-regardant rabbits in mirror image against a foliate background, patterned in white on a light pinkish-tan ground. Framing the octagon is a Kufic inscription repeated in orthograde and retrograde around the central design.
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