Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals (before 1982): Art, History and Details

Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals (before 1982) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The design originally consisted of a Tree of Life flanked by paired ibexes being pursued by a royal hunter. The latter, mounted on a fantastic creature, wears a Sasanian crown and holds a long spear. The fragment preserves most of the design to the right of the central tree, but only half of an ibex to the left of the tree.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals
• Date: before 1982
• Culture: Iran, style of the Abbasid period (750–1258) or Buyid period (945–1055)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: lampas weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 39 x 22 cm (15 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1982.22

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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