Collection Online as of November 29, 2023
Fragment with Inscription
Iran, in the style of the Buyid period
(945–1055)
Silk: compound tabby
Overall: 54 x 53 cm (21 1/4 x 20 7/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1968.235
Location
not on view
Description
This textile preserves most of 5 rows of aligned roundels; the top row and bottom two rows are very fragmentary. Each roundel contains a tree of life flanked by confronting peacocks with an inscription on its wings. Below the peacocks are recumbent, addorsed, and regardant quadrupeds also flanking the tree. Interspaces are filled with four-directional medallions of stylized plant forms.