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Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals

before 1982

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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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  • 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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