Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment

Date

before 1961

Medium

Silk: lampas weave

Culture

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

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The fragment preserves a tree of life flanked by a pair of large confronted simurghs , resembling peacocks, that grasp ibexes in their talons. A pair of small goats stand confronted and regardant at the base of the tree. Behind each ibex is a small palmette tree. The fragment constitutes the center third of a complete loom piece. The pattern is dark purplish brown on a golden brown ground.

The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.