
Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment with confronted animal medallions and kufic bands
- Date
- 1480–1649 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
- Medium
- Silk: diasper, tabby weave
- Culture
- Iran
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 128065
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The fragment preserves a wide central band flanked by narrower inscription bands. The narrower bands contain, on a dark blue background, a continuous inscription in elaborate Kufic, the ivory-colored lettering oriented at right angles to the warp. On the wider ivory panel there appear ovals enclosing a frieze of running animals within which are hexagons enclosing stars. The ovals alternate vertically with cartouches containing an inscription in simple Kufic, the design appearing in blue, pink, and ivory.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1950: (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1950–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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