Collection record · Dress & textiles
Fragment with Senmurvs
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated prior to 1971. Recorded culture or place: Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Abbasid period (750–1258).
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- Museum title
- Fragment with Senmurvs
- Date
- prior to 1971
- Culture / origin
- Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Abbasid period (750–1258)
- Materials and technique
- Silk: lampas weave
- Dimensions
- Overall: 101.4 x 45.7 cm (39 15/16 x 18 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1971.22
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This fragment preserves three large, aligned, tangent ovals in a column. Each oval contains a senmurv ornamented with foliate and geometric forms; the border contains a stylized foliate motif. Ovals are joined at their cardinal points with a cross-shaped geometric figure within a smaller oval bordered with pearls. Interspaces contain X-shaped medallions consisting of four palmettes around a diamond center.
According to recent analysis of the museum’s Buyid and Abbasid textile materials, some have been identified as modern reproductions.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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