Fragment with confronted animal medallions and kufic bands (1480–1649 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)): Art, History and Details

Fragment with confronted animal medallions and kufic bands (1480–1649 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)) 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 a wide central band flanked by narrower inscription bands. The narrower bands contain, on a dark blue background, a continuous inscription in elaborate Kufic, the ivory-colored lettering oriented at right angles to the warp. On the wider ivory panel there appear ovals enclosing a frieze of running animals within which are hexagons enclosing stars. The ovals alternate vertically with cartouches containing an inscription in simple Kufic, the design appearing in blue, pink, and ivory.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment with confronted animal medallions and kufic bands
• Date: 1480–1649 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
• Culture: Iran
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: diasper, tabby weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 39.6 x 45.4 cm (15 9/16 x 17 7/8 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1950.84

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Shepherd, Dorothy. "A Persian Textile of the Buyid Period." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 41, no. 3 (March 1954): 52–55.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• Persian Art Before And After the Mongol Conquest.: [Exhibition] April 9-May 17, 1959. the University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Museum of Art, 1959.

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