id: 142303 accession number: 1966.134 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.134 updated: 2022-01-04 16:34:47.521000 Ogives with Winged Quadrupeds and Peacocks, 1517-1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 69.8 x 49.8 cm (27 1/2 x 19 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Abegg 1966.134 title: Ogives with Winged Quadrupeds and Peacocks title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1517-1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability) creation date earliest: 1517 creation date latest: 1950 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Abegg copyright: --- culture: Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055) technique: Silk: lampas weave department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 69.8 x 49.8 cm (27 1/2 x 19 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: "kull ibn untha wa-in talat salamatuhu yawman 'ala alah badba' mahmul" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Werner [1903–1984] and Margaret Harrington Daniels Abegg [1901–1999], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: The design consists of aligned ogives in 4-1/2 rows and part or all of 6 columns; each ogive contains a running winged quadruped with an animal head. Floriated motifs emerge from the end of the tail and fill the interstices. The double border consists of an inner band with scrolling vine and an outer band of kufic inscription. Resulting columns of diamond-shaped interspaces are alternately ornamented with squares filled with diaper pattern on a foliate field and a pair of confronting, regardant peacocks flanking a tree of life. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS “Annual Report for 1966.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 6, 1967, pp. 159–197. page number: Mentioned: pp. 177-178 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152162 Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. "Reevaluating the Date of the "Buyid" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis." Ars Orientalis 22 (1992): 1-41. page number: Reprpoduced: p. 33; Mentioned: p. 15 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4629423 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.134/1966.134_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.134/1966.134_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.134/1966.134_full.tif