The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Fragments
1420–1955
Average: 71 x 77 cm (27 15/16 x 30 5/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1968.225
Location: not on view
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The design is at right angles to the warp.Description
The weave provides different design for each side of this fragment. On the front, the overall lozenge pattern has alternating rows of ornamented ovals and diamonds. The large diamonds have a large four-leaved motif superimposed over a diamond with trees in each corner. The foliate ground with four pairs of opposed griffins fills the interspaces to the oval border. The diamonds have two opposed pairs of birds each flanking a Tree of Life and standing on a plant motif; these enclose a smaller central diamond with trees in each corner and a central square.On the reverse, the plain ground of natural tan has two brown bands with large and small Kufic inscriptions.
- ?-1968(Nassiri Amini, Tehran, Iran, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1968-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. "Reevaluating the Date of the "Buyid" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis." Ars Orientalis 22 (1992): 1-41. Reproduced: p. 12; Mentioned: p. 11 www.jstor.org
- Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1968.225