Cleveland Museum of Art

Two-faced Carpet Fragment

Date

1100s

Medium

senna knot

Culture

Iran ?, Seljuq period (1037–1194)

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This fragment preserves portions of designs of two faces of a carpet. One design depicts a stylized tulip with part of its mirror image. The opposite side depicts a pair of winged ibexes oriented at right angles to the "tulip" design. The tulip symbolizes modesty before God because, when in full bloom, it bows its head.

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