Fragment of a Caftan (before 1982): Art, History and Details

Fragment of a Caftan (before 1982) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This fragment from a caftan features large-scale flattened octagons with pearled borders that contain a royal hunting scene: a king mounted on a running horse draws his bow at a rampant lion. Two dogs with their tongues out also run towards the lion. The star-shaped interspaces are filled with four radiating palmettes.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment of a Caftan
• Date: before 1982
• Culture: Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: lampas weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 141.5 x 156.5 cm (55 11/16 x 61 5/8 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1982.43.a

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 70, no. 1, 1983, pp. 3–55.

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