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Fragment
before 1952
- Medium
- Silk: compound tabby
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- Overall: 43.8 x 36.8 cm (17 1/4 x 14 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Textiles
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Large roundels with pearl borders enclose eight palmette trees radiating from a central abstract floral motif. The large roundels are linked to each other along their vertical and horizontal axes by small roundels, also having pearl borders, that enclose a square and four crescents. Between these links, the large roundels are interrupted by small roundels enclosing single recumbent ibexes. The pattern, which is completely reversible, appears in tan on a dark blue background, or vice versa.
