Collection record · Dress & textiles
Fragments
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated 1420–1955. Recorded culture or place: Iran or Iraq.
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- Museum title
- Fragments
- Date
- 1420–1955
- Culture / origin
- Iran or Iraq
- Materials and technique
- Silk: compound twill weave
- Dimensions
- Average: 71 x 77 cm (27 15/16 x 30 5/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1968.225
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
The weave provides different design for each side of this fragment. On the front, the overall lozenge pattern has alternating rows of ornamented ovals and diamonds. The large diamonds have a large four-leaved motif superimposed over a diamond with trees in each corner. The foliate ground with four pairs of opposed griffins fills the interspaces to the oval border. The diamonds have two opposed pairs of birds each flanking a Tree of Life and standing on a plant motif; these enclose a smaller central diamond with trees in each corner and a central square.
On the reverse, the plain ground of natural tan has two brown bands with large and small Kufic inscriptions.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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