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Two-faced Carpet Fragment
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Two-faced Carpet Fragment

1100s · senna knot

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

This fragment preserves portions of designs of two faces of a carpet. One design depicts a stylized tulip with part of its mirror image. The opposite side depicts a pair of winged ibexes oriented at right angles to the "tulip" design.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineTwo-faced Carpet Fragment, 1100s. Iran ?, Seljuq period (1037–1194). Senna knot; overall: 39.3 x 16.2 cm (15 1/2 x 6 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Abegg, 1966.132

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