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Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals

before 1982
(945–1055)
Silk: lampas weave
Overall: 39 x 22 cm (15 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1982.22
Location: 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.
Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals

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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