Cleveland Museum of Art

Roundels with King Spearing Lion

Date

prior to 1971

Medium

Silk: lampas weave

Culture

Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Abbasid period (750–1258)

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This fragment preserves tangent and aligned roundels arranged in 3 rows. Each roundel depicts a king with an impaled lion at end of a spear; the image is reversed in alternate columns. The roundels have a pearled border. Interspaces are ornamented with a motif composed of four palmettes in an X formation. Only one roundel is complete, but 9 other partial roundels are also preserved on this fragment.

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