Description
This fragment preserves tangent and aligned roundels arranged in 3 rows. Each roundel depicts a king with an impaled lion at end of a spear; the image is reversed in alternate columns. The roundels have a pearled border. Interspaces are ornamented with a motif composed of four palmettes in an X formation.
Provenance
(Nassiri Amini, Tehran, Iran, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1971); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1971-)
Accession Number
1971.25
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Dimensions
Overall: 74.2 x 85.7 cm (29 3/16 x 33 3/4 in.)
Classification
Textile
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund