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Roundels with King Spearing Lion
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About this work
This fragment preserves tangent and aligned roundels arranged in 3 rows. Each roundel depicts a king with an impaled lion at end of a spear; the image is reversed in alternate columns. The roundels have a pearled border. Interspaces are ornamented with a motif composed of four palmettes in an X formation.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineRoundels with King Spearing Lion, prior to 1971. Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Abbasid period (750–1258). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 74.2 x 85.7 cm (29 3/16 x 33 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1971.25
