Fragment with Inscription (before 1968): Art, History and Details

Fragment with Inscription (before 1968) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Two double rows of inscription run in the warp direction of the textile, the dark lettering oriented at right angles to the warp. In the center is a floral medallion with pendants. The design is woven in golden brown, gray brown, and dark blue-green (all now faded) against a dark golden tan ground. Both selvages are preserved.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment with Inscription
• Date: before 1968
• Culture: Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: lampas weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 69.8 x 55.3 cm (27 1/2 x 21 3/4 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1968.232

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Annual Report for 1968.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 56, no. 6, 1969, pp. 209–248.

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