Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars
Unknown Artist
1521–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Dimensions
26.5 × 100.5 cm
Classification
Textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
1982.281
About this artwork
The design consists of aligned large-scale octagons and four-pointed star-shaped interspaces filled with leafy scrolls. Each octagon encloses pairs of regardant gazelles and nonregardant rabbits in mirror image against a foliate background, patterned in white on a light pinkish-tan ground.