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Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals
before 1982
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The design originally consisted of a Tree of Life flanked by paired ibexes being pursued by a royal hunter. The latter, mounted on a fantastic creature, wears a Sasanian crown and holds a long spear. The fragment preserves most of the design to the right of the central tree, but only half of an ibex to the left of the tree.
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Details
- Title: Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals
- Date Created: before 1982
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 39 x 22 cm (15 3/8 x 8 11/16 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/1982.22
- Medium: Silk: lampas weave
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: Iran, style of the Abbasid period (750–1258) or Buyid period (945–1055)
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: T - Islamic
- Accession Number: 1982.22
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