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Fragment with Inscription
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About this work
This textile preserves most of 5 rows of aligned roundels; the top row and bottom two rows are very fragmentary. Each roundel contains a tree of life flanked by confronting peacocks with an inscription on its wings. Below the peacocks are recumbent, addorsed, and regardant quadrupeds also flanking the tree. Interspaces are filled with four-directional medallions of stylized plant forms.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFragment with Inscription, before 1968. Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055). Silk: compound tabby; overall: 54 x 53 cm (21 1/4 x 20 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1968.235
