The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars
before 1949
Location: not on view
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 non-regardant rabbits in mirror image against a foliate background, patterned in white on a light pinkish-tan ground. Framing the octagon is a Kufic inscription repeated in orthograde and retrograde around the central design.- Originally reported as having been found in Bibi Shahr Banu, near Rayy, Iran?-1949(Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1949-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Two Seljuk Silks from Raiy.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 37, no. 1, 1950, pp. 16–12. Mentioned: pp. 16-17; Reproduced: [unpaginated] 25141602Schmidt, Heinrich Jakob. Alte Seidenstoffe; ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1958. p. 117, fig. 83
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1949.165