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Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars
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About this work
The design consists of aligned large-scale octagons and four-pointed star-shaped interspaces filled with leafy scrolls. Each octagon encloses pairs of regardant gazelles and nonregardant rabbits in mirror image against a foliate background, patterned in white on a light pinkish-tan ground.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars, 1521–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 26.5 x 100.5 cm (10 7/16 x 39 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1982.281
