The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 14, 2025

Fragment with Inscription

before 1968

Iran, in the style of the Buyid period

(945–1055)
Silk: compound tabby
Overall: 54 x 53 cm (21 1/4 x 20 7/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1968.235
Location: Not on view

Description

This textile preserves most of 5 rows of aligned roundels; the top row and bottom two rows are very fragmentary. Each roundel contains a tree of life flanked by confronting peacocks with an inscription on its wings. Below the peacocks are recumbent, addorsed, and regardant quadrupeds also flanking the tree. Interspaces are filled with four-directional medallions of stylized plant forms.
  • ?-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
  • Year in Review for 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).
  • {{cite web|title=Fragment with Inscription|url=false|author=|year=before 1968|access-date=14 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1968.235