Collection record · Dress & textiles
Embroidered border and field of animals in large roundels
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated 1000s–1100s. Recorded culture or place: Iraq, probably Baghdad, Seljuk period.
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- Museum title
- Embroidered border and field of animals in large roundels
- Date
- 1000s–1100s
- Culture / origin
- Iraq, probably Baghdad, Seljuk period
- Materials and technique
- plain weave: silk warp and cotton weft (mulham): plain weave; silk and gold thread: embroidery, couched, split, running, and outline stitches:
- Dimensions
- Overall: 26.7 x 12.4 cm (10 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1952.257
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This fragment preserves part of the main field and border of a large textile. At the top is a small segment of a roundel frame with fragments of a pair of confronted animals; at the lower right is part of a smaller roundel in which only the hind part of a lion or griffin remains. Below the roundels is a section of a wide border with a large bird wearing Sasanian flying ribbons about its neck. It is framed in a roundel formed by the tendrils of a scrolling vine. A narrow band at the bottom has a badly garbled Kufic inscription, which is upside down in relation to the rest of the pattern. Only the word "Allah" repeated twice can be deciphered.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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