Fragment with Landscape, Hunters, and Ibexes

before 1982

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

Ibexes romp in a landscape of hills on the lower half of this silk fragment. Above are a pair of addorsed horsemen and a standing male figure on the left. All wear tunics with shoulder ornaments and hats with flying ribbons.

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Title: Fragment with Landscape, Hunters, and Ibexes
Date Created: before 1982
Physical Dimensions: Overall: 39.5 x 44.5 cm (15 9/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
Provenance: (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Type: Textile
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.21
Medium: Silk: lampas weave
Department: Textiles
Culture: Iran, style of the Abbasid period (750–1258)
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Collection: T - Islamic
Accession Number: 1982.21

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