Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment

Date

before 1981

Medium

Silk: compound tabby

Culture

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

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The fragment preserves two oval compartments from a design of linked ovals each containing a recumbent ibex. The ibexes are addorsed linking each compartment to the next is a concentric oval device containing in the center a crescent moon. The design in pale blue, tan, and cream on a deep navy blue ground is oriented at right angles to the warp.

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