Fragment
Unknown Artist
before 1968
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Dimensions
41.6 × 51.7 cm
Classification
Textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
1968.233
About this artwork
This textile preserves five rows of aligned, tangent roundels with four in each row. Each roundel contains a front-facing harpy with a checkered body and stylized plant forms surrounding it. Interspaces are filled with small roundels tangential to the design. Each small roundel encloses an eight-pointed star within which is a square ornamented with four centered pearls. Interstices are filled with stylized plant forms.