
Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragments with Griffins in Roundels
- Date
- before 1966
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Culture
- Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037–1194)
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 142306
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This fragment consists of two almost complete roundels in lower right and fragment of third one at the left, plus parts of other roundels. In the roundels are a pair of confronted, winged griffins either side of a "palm" tree. Heavy baroque floral motifs fill the spaces between the main motifs and the roundel frame. The palm grows out of a curious foliate device at the bottom. The roundel frame has pearl borders between which are little circles about 2 cm. in diameter with a series of elegant tiny motifs beginning with a star at the four cardinal points and repeated, left and right, from top to bottom, are a lion, reclining winged ibex, reclining horned animal (possibly a bull), then center star on side, then winged griffin or goat(?), peacock, and lion regardant. In the interspaces are large circular motifs filled with stylized floral motifs and pendant floral motifs growing out in the four angles.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Abegg
- Provenance
- Originally reported by the Iran Bastan Museum as probably from Bibi Shar Banu, Rayy, Iran | ?-1966: Werner [1903–1984] and Margaret Harrington Daniels Abegg [1901–1999], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1966-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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