Fragment with Equestrian Falconer King (before 1982): Art, History and Details

Fragment with Equestrian Falconer King (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 preserves a roundel containing a king on horseback. He has a falcon in his left hand and a leafy branch in his right. The roundel’s border is ornamented with a scrolling foliate vine. Interspaces contain partial oval medallions enclosing an eight-pointed star within which is a four-directional palmette. Joining the roundels at their cardinal points are x-shaped geometric figures.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment with Equestrian Falconer King
• Date: before 1982
• Culture: Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Abbasid period (750–1258)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: lampas weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 34.5 x 28.5 cm (13 9/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1982.18

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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