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Fragment with lions and griffins in combat
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About this work
Against a diaper-patterned background are roundels each containing a Tree of Life flanked by a lion and dragon in combat, birds, and griffins. The rondels are framed with a frieze of running animals. Twelve-sided figures in the interspaces enclose diamonds with pairs of confronted birds and animals flanking another Tree of Life.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFragment with lions and griffins in combat, 1459–1669 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 50.8 x 71.1 cm (20 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1968.221
