Fragment (before 1981): Art, History and Details

Fragment (before 1981) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The fragment preserves two oval compartments from a design of linked ovals each containing a recumbent ibex. The ibexes are addorsed linking each compartment to the next is a concentric oval device containing in the center a crescent moon. The design in pale blue, tan, and cream on a deep navy blue ground is oriented at right angles to the warp.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment
• Date: before 1981
• Culture: Iran, style of the Abbasid period (750–1258)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: compound tabby
• Dimensions: Overall: 37 x 24.6 cm (14 9/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1981.22

Collection credit

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lemberg, Mechthild. “The Buyid Silks of the Abegg Foundation, Berne.” Bulletin du CIETA. Centre international d'étude des textiles anciens. No. 37 1973 – I. p. 11-54

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