Fragments with Eight-Pointed Star (Two Pieces) (before 1966): Art, History and Details

Fragments with Eight-Pointed Star (Two Pieces) (before 1966) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

In aligned rows and columns, this textile preserves two rows of three eight-pointed stars and fragments of stars on all four sides. Each eight-pointed star has a narrow border of pearls that encloses a 16-pointed star with a border of scrolling foliate motif. The inner star has a design in the upper half that is repeated in mirror image in the lower half; it consists of pair of winged quadrupeds flanking a tree of life. All interstices in both stars are filled with a stylized floral motif. Interspaces are ornamented with a cross of four-directional palmettes.

Object facts

• Title: Fragments with Eight-Pointed Star (Two Pieces)
• Date: before 1966
• Culture: Iran (?)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: compound weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 70.2 x 54.6 cm (27 5/8 x 21 1/2 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1966.137

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Abegg

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Annual Report for 1966.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 6, 1967, pp. 159–197.

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