The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
Fragment with running animal roundels and kufic inscriptions
1530–1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
Location: Not on view
Description
This fragment preserves a wide central band flanked by narrower inscription bands. The narrower bands contain, on a dark blue background a continuous inscription in elaborate Kufic, the ivory-colored lettering oriented at right angles to the warp. On the wider ivory panel there appear ovals enclosing a frieze of running animals within which are hexagons enclosing stars. The ovals alternate vertically with cartouches containing an inscription in simple Kufic, the design appearing in blue, pink, and ivory.- Originally reported to have been found at Bibi Shahr Banu near Rayy, Persia?-1953(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1953-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. 34; Mentioned: p. 15 www.jstor.orgMackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. Reproduced: P.154, fig. 4b; Mentioned: P. 154-155
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1953.331