Fragment from a funeral garment or pall

Description

An incomplete pearl-bordered roundel frames a diamond containing a pair of confronting peacocks that flank a Tree of Life and stand on a pair of confronting lions or dogs. Interspaces between diamond and border contain a pair of griffins (above) and a floral/vine motif (below). Winged bodies of confronting goats(?) stand on top of roundel and at right is an ornate palmette supported by a griffin. Tangential to the roundel at the upper right is a smaller pearl-framed medallion containing a circular Kufic inscription around a diaper-patterned center.

Provenance

(Nassiri Amini, Tehrān, Iran, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1968); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1968-)

Fragment from a funeral garment or pall

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1649–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

Accession Number

1968.227

Medium

Silk: lampas weave

Dimensions

Overall: 21 x 23.5 cm (8 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.)

Classification

Textile

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund