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:

On a plain golden tan ground is a dark band containing two rows of a plaited Kufic inscription woven in the weft direction. The golden tan lettering within each band is oriented in the warp direction. The upper inscription row is three times larger than lower. The plain area below the inscription band and the inscription band are woven in compound tabby. The plain area above inscription band is woven in 3/1 broken twill.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment with Inscription
• Date: before 1968
• Culture: Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: compound tabby and broken twill weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 55.2 x 64.7 cm (21 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1968.234

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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