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Fragment
before 1968
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This fragment's overall lozenge grid has alternate rows of two opposed pairs of confronted camels on a densely foliated ground flanking a central ornamented diamond that encloses four-directional palmettes in deep golden tan on a dark blue-green ground, and symmetrical pairs of opposed floral vines in dark blue-green on a deep golden tan ground.
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Details
- Title: Fragment
- Date Created: before 1968
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 29.2 x 35.5 cm (11 1/2 x 14 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/1968.226
- Medium: Silk: compound twill weave
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: Iran or Iraq
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: T - Islamic
- Accession Number: 1968.226
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