Description
These fragments from a caftan feature large-scale flattened octagons with pearled borders that contain a royal hunting scene: a king mounted on a running horse draws his bow at a rampant lion. Two dogs with their tongues out also run toward the lion. The star-shaped interspaces are filled with four radiating palmettes.
Provenance
(Soleiman Amini, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1982); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1982-)
Accession Number
1982.43
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Dimensions
Average: 141.5 x 156.5 cm (55 11/16 x 61 5/8 in.)
Classification
Textile
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund