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Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals

before 1982

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

(945–1055)
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Measurements
Overall: 39 x 22 cm (15 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1982.22
Public Domain
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Not on view
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Description

The design originally consisted of a Tree of Life flanked by paired ibexes being pursued by a royal hunter. The latter, mounted on a fantastic creature, wears a Sasanian crown and holds a long spear. The fragment preserves most of the design to the right of the central tree, but only half of an ibex to the left of the tree.
A horizontally oriented brown silk textile fragment features a repeating dark pattern against a woven ground. On the right, a figure wearing a tall, ribboned headdress rides a large animal while brandishing a spear. To their left, two horned goats gallop toward a stylized tree with ornate, spreading foliage flanked by two small animals. The fragment's edges are frayed.

Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals

before 1982

Iran, style of the Abbasid period (750–1258) or Buyid period (945–1055)

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