Fragment
Unknown Artist
before 1975
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Dimensions
38.5 × 67 cm
Classification
Textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of The Textile Arts Club and Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Accession Number
1975.38
About this artwork
This silk was originally reported to be one of several fragments from garments, shroud, and tomb covers unearthed during the early 1900s at Bibi Shahr Banu outside the ancient city of Rayy, a few miles from Tehran. The fragment preserves a beginning (or finishing) edge at the bottom and a small portion of selvage along the left edge. The exceptionally beautiful design of this silk is filled with ornament. Even the spaces between the roundels containing birds and palmette trees and the octagons w...