Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars
- Date
- 1521–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Culture
- Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The design consists of aligned large-scale octagons and four-pointed star-shaped interspaces filled with leafy scrolls. Each octagon encloses pairs of regardant gazelles and nonregardant rabbits in mirror image against a foliate background, patterned in white on a light pinkish-tan ground.
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