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About this work
This textile preserves five rows of aligned, tangent roundels with four in each row. Each roundel contains a front-facing harpy with a checkered body and stylized plant forms surrounding it. Interspaces are filled with small roundels tangential to the design. Each small roundel encloses an eight-pointed star within which is a square ornamented with four centered pearls. Interstices are filled with stylized plant forms.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFragment, before 1968. Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 41.6 x 51.7 cm (16 3/8 x 20 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1968.233
