Fragment with Rows of Confronted Rabbits (900s): Art, History and Details

Fragment with Rows of Confronted Rabbits (900s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This fragment includes pairs of confronted rabbits(?) arranged in staggered horizontal rows. The right border preserves parts of a selvage and an inscription, which is orthograde to the right and retrograde to the left. The rabbits are woven in dark blue on a tan ground; the inscription is tan on a dark blue ground.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment with Rows of Confronted Rabbits
• Date: 900s
• Culture: Iran or Iraq ?, Buyid period, 10th century
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: compound twill
• Dimensions: Overall: 57.5 x 41.6 cm (22 5/8 x 16 3/8 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1968.229

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

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