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Hanging fragment with boar head

600s-early 700s

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

This fragment preserves parts of two distinct designs. In the lower section, a boar's head is framed by a pearl roundel; to left and right are fragments of two other roundels, and in the spandrels are segments of stylized flowers. In the field above are four feet of what must have been a rather large-scale horse standing in a meadow of flowers of which only fragments remain. A fifth hoof, turned in the opposite direction, indicates that originally the composition included a pair of horses addorsed. A double row of pearls occupies the spaces beneath the horses' feet, and a narrow plain band separates this field from the one below.

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  • Title: Hanging fragment with boar head
  • Date Created: 600s-early 700s
  • Physical Dimensions: Overall: 21 x 25.2 cm (8 1/4 x 9 15/16 in.)
  • Provenance: (Dr. Emil Delmar [1876–1959], Budapest, Hungary, and 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/1950.509
  • Medium: Wool and linen: tapestry weave
  • Department: Textiles
  • Culture: Iran
  • Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
  • Collection: T - Islamic
  • Accession Number: 1950.509
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