Fragment with Landscape, Hunters, and Ibexes (before 1982): Art, History and Details

Fragment with Landscape, Hunters, and Ibexes (before 1982) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Ibexes romp in a landscape of hills on the lower half of this silk fragment. Above are a pair of addorsed horsemen and a standing male figure on the left. All wear tunics with shoulder ornaments and hats with flying ribbons.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment with Landscape, Hunters, and Ibexes
• Date: before 1982
• Culture: Iran, style of the Abbasid period (750–1258)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: lampas weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 39.5 x 44.5 cm (15 9/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1982.21

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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