id:			143786
accession number:	1968.221
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.221
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:20.614000

Fragment with lions and griffins in combat, 1459–1669 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 50.8 x 71.1 cm (20 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1968.221

title:				Fragment with lions and griffins in combat
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creation date:			1459–1669 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
creation date earliest:		1459
creation date latest:		1669
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
technique:	Silk: lampas weave
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 50.8 x 71.1 cm (20 x 28 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	"wa-kull ma badharahu al-Rahman la-mu 'awwal"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1968
	opening date:   1969-01-29T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1968</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Teheran Market
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	(Nassiri Amini, Tehran, Iran, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1968
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1968-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	“Annual Report for 1968.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 56, no. 6, 1969, pp. 209–248.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 225
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152279

	Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. "Reevaluating the Date of the "Buyid" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis." <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 22 (1992): 1-41.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 31; Mentioned: p. 15
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/4629423

	Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 155, fig. 4f; Mentioned: P. 154-155
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IMAGES

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