Fragment with Griffins in Roundels (before 1982): Art, History and Details

Fragment with Griffins in Roundels (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 rows of tangent roundels, each containing pair of griffins flanking a tree. Borders of the roundels are ornamented with small medallions enclosing animals or a floral device. The interspaces between roundels are filled with geometric floral figures.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment with Griffins in Roundels
• Date: before 1982
• Culture: Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037–1194)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: lampas weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 35.5 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1982.19

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade 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
• 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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