Fragment from Funeral Garment or Pall (before 1958): Art, History and Details
Fragment from Funeral Garment or Pall at the Cleveland Museum of Art: before 1958, Silk: lampas weave, brocaded. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Fragment from Funeral Garment or Pall (before 1958) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
A wide band of large-scale Kufic inscription repeating the first words from a diwan of poems attributed to the Caliph Ali is brocaded in blue on a tan ground. The inscription runs at right angles to the warp. Above is a narrow guilloche band. Both bands are defined by guard stripes.
Object facts
- Title: Fragment from Funeral Garment or Pall
- Date: before 1958
- Culture: Iran
- Type: Textile
- Technique: Silk: lampas weave, brocaded
- Dimensions: Overall: 28.3 x 18.5 cm (11 1/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
- Collection: T - Islamic
- Department: Textiles
- Accession number: 1958.131
Collection credit
Gift of Adolph Loewi
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