Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals

Description

The design originally consisted of a Tree of Life flanked by paired ibexes being pursued by a royal hunter. The latter, mounted on a fantastic creature, wears a Sasanian crown and holds a long spear. The fragment preserves most of the design to the right of the central tree, but only half of an ibex to the left of the tree.

Provenance

(Spink & Son, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1982); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1982-)

Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals

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before 1982

Accession Number

1982.22

Medium

Silk: lampas weave

Dimensions

Overall: 39 x 22 cm (15 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.)

Classification

Textile

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund