The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Fragment
1420–1955
Overall: 20.2 x 27 cm (7 15/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1968.225.c
Location: not on view
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The design is at right angles to warp.Description
The weave provides different design for each side. On the front, the overall lozenge pattern has alternating rows of ornamented ovals and diamonds. The large diamonds have a large four-leaved motif super-imposed 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 in large and small Kufic inscription.
- ?-1968(Nassiri Amini, Tehran, Iran, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1968-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- “Annual Report for 1968.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 56, no. 6, 1969, pp. 209–248. Mentioned: p. 225 www.jstor.org
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