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Medallions with confronting peacocks

Medallions with confronting peacocks

1660–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
Overall: 59 x 57.4 cm (23 1/4 x 22 5/8 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

This textile preserves six ovals aligned in two vertical columns; the top two ovals are fragmentary. Columns are separated by two guard lines that are interrupted by smaller vertical almond-shaped motifs; these are tangent to the large ovals at the widest point. Each large oval, bordered by a band of floriated Kufic, has a central ogival medallion, also bordered with floriated Kufic, with palmettes at each end. The medallions are placed on a ground of white on white with small aligned circles. Interspaces between large ovals are filled with pairs of opposed palmette trees flanked at each end with confronting birds in flight.
  • ?-1968
    Paul [1884–1975] and Marguerite Mallon [d. 1977], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1968-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1968.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 56, no. 1, 1969, pp. 3–50. Reproduced: p. 7, no. 125 (detail); Mentioned: p. 48, no. 125 25152250
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 273 archive.org
    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. 39; Mentioned: p. 15 www.jstor.org
    Mackie, 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. 4e; Mentioned: P. 154-155
  • Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).
    Iran between East and West. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (June-August, 1966).
  • {{cite web|title=Medallions with confronting peacocks|url=false|author=|year=1660–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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