Carpet Fragment
Unknown Artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
Medium
Silk: knotted pile
Dimensions
61 × 37.5 cm
Classification
Carpet
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Milton Girod
Accession Number
1988.243
About this artwork
This rectangular fragment has large spade-shaped palmettes filling each corner. The palmettes bear dark blue and red animals and birds on a cream/ivory background. The central dark blue medallion encloses an irregular, inscription-bearing green square. At the top and bottom center is a smaller inscription-bearing square with date palms extending from cardinal points; vertical palms divide the rectangle, and horizontal palms delineate the start of a new repeat wherein palmettes have dark blue bac...