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Fragment of a Caftan
before 1982
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This fragment from a caftan features large-scale flattened octagons with pearled borders that contain a royal hunting scene: a king mounted on a running horse draws his bow at a rampant lion. Two dogs with their tongues out also run towards the lion. The star-shaped interspaces are filled with four radiating palmettes.
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- Title: Fragment of a Caftan
- Date Created: before 1982
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 50.5 x 49.2 cm (19 7/8 x 19 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: (Soleiman Amini, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Textile
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.43.b
- Medium: lampas weave, silk
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: T - Islamic
- Accession Number: 1982.43.b
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