Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment with Griffins in Roundels
- Date
- before 1982
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Culture
- Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037–1194)
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This fragment preserves rows of tangent roundels, each containing pair of griffins flanking a tree. Borders of the roundels are ornamented with small medallions enclosing animals or a floral device. The interspaces between roundels are filled with geometric floral figures.
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