Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars (1521–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)): Art, History and Details

Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars (1521–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The design consists of aligned large-scale octagons and four-pointed star-shaped interspaces filled with leafy scrolls. Each octagon encloses pairs of regardant gazelles and nonregardant rabbits in mirror image against a foliate background, patterned in white on a light pinkish-tan ground.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars
• Date: 1521–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
• Culture: Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: lampas weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 26.5 x 100.5 cm (10 7/16 x 39 9/16 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1982.281

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. "Reevaluating the Date of the "Buyid" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis." Ars Orientalis 22 (1992): 1-41.

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