id:			143788
accession number:	1968.223
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.223
updated:		2022-05-06 09:00:17.941000

Fragments, before 1968. Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037–1194). Silk: lampas weave; average: 49 x 33 cm (19 5/16 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1968.223

title:				Fragments
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creation date:			before 1968
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1968
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037–1194)
technique:	Silk: lampas weave
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Average: 49 x 33 cm (19 5/16 x 13 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	fa-idha al-na'imu wa-kullu ma yulha bihi/ 
yawm (an in superscript) yasiru ilá bilá wa-nafadi
	translation:	
	remark:		

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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

	(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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wall description: 
Geometric medallions aligned on a diaper ground are enclosed in a grid of large and small lozenges. Medallions contain confronting peacocks flanking a Tree of Life. The double border has an inner frieze of running animals and an outer band of Kufic inscription. The larger diamonds contain four-directional palmette trees and two opposed pairs of rampant animals. The smaller diamonds have pairs of peacocks in each corner framing an octagon, which contains two opposed pairs of animals flanking a central lozenge. Floral vines and ornaments fill the interspaces of large and small diamonds.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

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

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 273
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n293

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IMAGES

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