Fragment (before 1968): Art, History and Details
Fragment at the Cleveland Museum of Art: before 1968, Silk: compound twill weave. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Fragment (before 1968) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This fragment's overall lozenge grid has alternate rows of two opposed pairs of confronted camels on a densely foliated ground flanking a central ornamented diamond that encloses four-directional palmettes in deep golden tan on a dark blue-green ground, and symmetrical pairs of opposed floral vines in dark blue-green on a deep golden tan ground.
Object facts
- Title: Fragment
- Date: before 1968
- Culture: Iran or Iraq
- Type: Textile
- Technique: Silk: compound twill weave
- Dimensions: Overall: 29.2 x 35.5 cm (11 1/2 x 14 in.)
- Collection: T - Islamic
- Department: Textiles
- Accession number: 1968.226
Collection credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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