Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment with Inscription

Date

before 1968

Medium

Silk: compound tabby

Culture

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

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This textile preserves most of 5 rows of aligned roundels; the top row and bottom two rows are very fragmentary. Each roundel contains a tree of life flanked by confronting peacocks with an inscription on its wings. Below the peacocks are recumbent, addorsed, and regardant quadrupeds also flanking the tree. Interspaces are filled with four-directional medallions of stylized plant forms.

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