Ogives with Winged Quadrupeds and Peacocks (1517–1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)): Art, History and Details

Ogives with Winged Quadrupeds and Peacocks (1517–1950 (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 ogives in 4-1/2 rows and part or all of 6 columns; each ogive contains a running winged quadruped with an animal head. Floriated motifs emerge from the end of the tail and fill the interstices. The double border consists of an inner band with scrolling vine and an outer band of kufic inscription. Resulting columns of diamond-shaped interspaces are alternately ornamented with squares filled with diaper pattern on a foliate field and a pair of confronting, regardant peacocks flanking a tree of life.

Object facts

• Title: Ogives with Winged Quadrupeds and Peacocks
• Date: 1517–1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
• Culture: Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: lampas weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 69.8 x 49.8 cm (27 1/2 x 19 5/8 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1966.134

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.
• 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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