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Mar 29, 2006
Fragment
Fragment
before 1968
Iran, in the style of the Buyid period
(945–1055)
Silk: lampas weave
Overall: 41.6 x 51.7 cm (16 3/8 x 20 3/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1968.233
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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.
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