id:			143826
accession number:	1968.246
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.246
updated:		2025-03-25 11:13:44.645000

Fragment with falconer riding a bull in a rondel, 1000s-1100s (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iran, Rayy, Seljuk period. Silk: double cloth; overall: 28 x 25.4 cm (11 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ayyub Rabenou, 1968.246

title:				Fragment with falconer riding a bull in a rondel
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creation date:			1000s-1100s (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1199
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creditline:			Gift of Ayyub Rabenou
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culture:	Iran, Rayy, Seljuk period
technique:	Silk: double cloth
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 28 x 25.4 cm (11 x 10 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	inner band of a foliate Kufic inscription: ". . .   . . .  wa-bastah wa-'ala['] lil-shay[kh?] al-sayyid al-mansur al-mu['a] yyad Abi Nasr . . . bin[?] . . ."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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

	title:		Islamic art rotation
	opening date:   2014-12-18T05:00:00
	<i>Islamic art rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 18, 2014-December 14, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mr. Ayyub Rabenou [1902–1984], Paris, France, given 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

	Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1968.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 56, no. 1 (January 1969): 3–50.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 48, no. 126; Reproduced: p. 7, no. 126
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152250

	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. 27; 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: pp. 37, 144, fig. 4.14; Mentioned: pp. 33, 145
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