Fragment from Funeral Garment or Pall (before 1966): Art, History and Details

Fragment from Funeral Garment or Pall (before 1966) 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 two aligned rows of winged, regardant ibexes, 3-1/2 in each row, the top row going left, the bottom row to the right. The oval ornament at the base of the wing and interstices are filled with a stylized foliate motif. The design is dark blue on a tan ground.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment from Funeral Garment or Pall
• Date: before 1966
• Culture: Iran ?, Seljuq period (1037–1194)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: compound tabby
• Dimensions: Overall: 27.6 x 13.6 cm (10 7/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1966.133

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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