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Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars

1521–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period

(945–1055)
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Measurements
Overall: 26.5 x 100.5 cm (10 7/16 x 39 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1982.281
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Description

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.
A silk lampas weave textile consists of several worn and irregularly shaped fragments. The pieces feature a repeating pattern of large octagons containing white scrollwork on a muted tan ground. Pale green bands intersect to form four-pointed stars between the octagons, which hold smaller circular motifs. The largest fragment on our left shows a wide section of the design, while smaller, tattered pieces sit toward our right.

Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars

1521–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)

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