Description
The design consists of aligned large-scale octagons and four-pointed star-shaped interspaces filled with leafy scrolls. Each octagon encloses pairs of regardant gazelles and nonregardant rabbits in mirror image against a foliate background, patterned in white on a light pinkish-tan ground.
Provenance
originally reported to have come from Bibi Shahr Banu, necropolis at Rayy, Iran; Mme. Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France; (Goumaronart, Inc., Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1982); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1982-)
Accession Number
1982.281
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Dimensions
Overall: 26.5 x 100.5 cm (10 7/16 x 39 9/16 in.)
Classification
Textile
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
