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Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals
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About this work
The design originally consisted of a Tree of Life flanked by paired ibexes being pursued by a royal hunter. The latter, mounted on a fantastic creature, wears a Sasanian crown and holds a long spear. The fragment preserves most of the design to the right of the central tree, but only half of an ibex to the left of the tree.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals, before 1982. Iran, style of the Abbasid period (750–1258) or Buyid period (945–1055). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 39 x 22 cm (15 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1982.22
