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Fragment with running animal roundels and kufic inscriptions

1530-1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

This fragment preserves a wide central band flanked by narrower inscription bands. The narrower bands contain, on a dark blue background a continuous inscription in elaborate Kufic, the ivory-colored lettering oriented at right angles to the warp. On the wider ivory panel there appear ovals enclosing a frieze of running animals within which are hexagons enclosing stars. The ovals alternate vertically with cartouches containing an inscription in simple Kufic, the design appearing in blue, pink, and ivory.

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  • Title: Fragment with running animal roundels and kufic inscriptions
  • Date Created: 1530-1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
  • Physical Dimensions: Overall: 35.3 x 25 cm (13 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
  • Provenance: Originally reported to have been found at Bibi Shahr Banu near Rayy, Persia, (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Type: Textile
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.331
  • Medium: Silk: lampas weave, brocaded
  • Inscriptions: [daygha]m wa-kam asadan rawwa'a juhur kilab aya asadan fi jismihi ruh. . ., . . .aya asadan fi jismihi ruh daygham wa-kam asadan rawwa'a [ju]hur kilab aya asadan fi. . ., inni i'taqadtu bi-wa'idka wa-'adlika, wa-arhab ihsanika [wa-fad]lika
  • Department: Textiles
  • Culture: Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
  • Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
  • Collection: T - Islamic
  • Accession Number: 1953.331
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