Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment with running animal roundels and kufic inscriptions

Date

1530–1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

Medium

Silk: lampas weave, brocaded

Culture

Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This 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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