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Fragment

1420-1955

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

The weave provides different design for each side. On the front, the overall lozenge pattern has alternating rows of ornamented ovals and diamonds. The large diamonds have a large four-leaved motif super-imposed over a diamond with trees in each corner. The foliate ground with four pairs of opposed griffins fills the interspaces to the oval border. The diamonds have two opposed pairs of birds each flanking a Tree of Life and standing on a plant motif; these enclose a smaller central diamond with trees in each corner and a central square.

On the reverse, the plain ground of natural tan has two brown bands in large and small Kufic inscription.

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  • Title: Fragment
  • Date Created: 1420-1955
  • Physical Dimensions: Overall: 20.2 x 27 cm (7 15/16 x 10 5/8 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/1968.225.c
  • Medium: Silk: compound twill weave
  • Inscriptions: sana'ahu 'Ali bin Yusuf bin al-Marzuban al-..., li-yasta 'malhu al-amir al-ajall Qawam al-Mulk Abu 'Abd Allah 'Isa bin Ibrahim al-Harithi atala Allah fi al-m'ali baqa['a]hu wa-harasa fi iqtifa[']al-makarim fana['a]hu
  • Fun Fact: The design is at right angles to warp.
  • Department: Textiles
  • Culture: Iran or Iraq
  • Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
  • Collection: T - Islamic
  • Accession Number: 1968.225.c
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