Collection record · Dress & textiles
Fragment with gold leaf lions
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated 1000s–1100s. Recorded culture or place: Iran or Iraq, Seljuk period.
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- Museum title
- Fragment with gold leaf lions
- Date
- 1000s–1100s
- Culture / origin
- Iran or Iraq, Seljuk period
- Materials and technique
- Silk warp and cotton weft (mulham): plain weave; gold leaf, block printed
- Dimensions
- Overall: 32.1 x 40 cm (12 5/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1950.558
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Gold was block-printed onto mulham cloth with figures of lions—symbols of the royal hunt and imperial power. Gold lions adorned with collars and palmettes enliven squares on dark-brown and undyed mulham groups in a checkerboard layout. The pattern was printed with several blocks on the mulham surface. The process included drawing outlines with black ink and block printing with gold powder and dark-brown pigment, each mixed with a binding medium. The gold paint was flattened with rubbing, which created a good imitation of gold leaf.
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