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Panel with Falconers

1516–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

Iran, in the style of the Buyid period

(945–1055)

Silk: lampas weave

Overall: 136.7 x 79 cm (53 13/16 x 31 1/8 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1988.98

Location

not on view

Description

The panel preserves four vertical repeats of a tree flanked by falconers on confronted horses. Behind each falconer is an Arabic inscription. The design is delineated in dark brown against a tan ground.

Provenance
?-1988
(Rabenou Antiquities, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1988-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
“The Year in Review for 1988.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 76, no. 2, 1989, pp. 30–75. Reproduced: p. 51, no. 195 (detail); Mentioned: p. 74, no. 195 www.jstor.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. 31; 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. 155, fig. 4j; Mentioned: P. 154-155
Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1988.98