Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals
Unknown Artist
before 1982
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Dimensions
39 × 22 cm
Classification
Textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
1982.22
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The design originally consisted of a Tree of Life flanked by paired ibexes being pursued by a royal hunter. The latter, mounted on a fantastic creature, wears a Sasanian crown and holds a long spear. The fragment preserves most of the design to the right of the central tree, but only half of an ibex to the left of the tree.