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Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars
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About this work
The design consists of aligned large-scale octagons and four-pointed star-shaped interspaces filled with leafy scrolls. Each octagon encloses pairs of regardant gazelles and non-regardant rabbits in mirror image against a foliate background, patterned in white on a light pinkish-tan ground. Framing the octagon is a Kufic inscription repeated in orthograde and retrograde around the central design.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars, before 1949. Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037–1194). Lampas weave, silk; overall: 9 x 10.5 cm (3 9/16 x 4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1949.165.b
