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Fragment with Rows of Confronted Rabbits
900s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This fragment includes pairs of confronted rabbits(?) arranged in staggered horizontal rows. The right border preserves parts of a selvage and an inscription, which is orthograde to the right and retrograde to the left. The rabbits are woven in dark blue on a tan ground; the inscription is tan on a dark blue ground.
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- Title: Fragment with Rows of Confronted Rabbits
- Date Created: 900s
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 57.5 x 41.6 cm (22 5/8 x 16 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: (Nassiri Amini, Tehran, Iran, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Textile
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.229
- Medium: Silk: compound twill
- Inscriptions: Bism Allah al-rahman al-rahim kull shayi ['] [sic for shay'] masi-ruhu lil-zawal [sic for al-zawal] ghayr rabbi wa-salih al-a'mal
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: Iran or Iraq ?, Buyid period, 10th century
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: T - Islamic
- Accession Number: 1968.229
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