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Fragment
before 1968
- Medium
- Silk: twill weave
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- Overall: 72.5 x 68.5 cm (28 9/16 x 26 15/16 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
The fragment has large ovals containing combatant griffins and serpents framed with pearled borders and linked with round pearled medallions.
