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Source Description
The fragment preserves a wide central band flanked by narrower inscription bands. The narrower bands contain, on a dark blue background, a continuous inscription in elaborate Kufic, the ivory-colored lettering oriented at right angles to the warp. On the wider ivory panel there appear ovals enclosing a frieze of running animals within which are hexagons enclosing stars. The ovals alternate vertically with cartouches containing an inscription in simple Kufic, the design appearing in blue, pink, and ivory.
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Document identity
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128065
label
Fragment with confronted animal medallions and kufic bands
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Source metadata
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128065
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object
title
Fragment with confronted animal medallions and kufic bands
description
The fragment preserves a wide central band flanked by narrower inscription bands. The narrower bands contain, on a dark blue background, a continuous inscription in elaborate Kufic, the ivory-colored lettering oriented at right angles to the warp. On the wider ivory panel there appear ovals enclosing a frieze of running animals within which are hexagons enclosing stars. The ovals alternate vertically with cartouches containing an inscription in simple Kufic, the design appearing in blue, pink, and ivory.
date
1480–1649 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79908454
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 39.6 x 45.4 cm (15 9/16 x 17 7/8 in.)
cul
Iran
accession
1950.84
Source extras
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Silk: diasper, tabby weave
tombstone
Fragment with confronted animal medallions and kufic bands, 1480–1649 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iran. Silk: diasper, tabby weave; overall: 39.6 x 45.4 cm (15 9/16 x 17 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1950.84
collection
T - Islamic
inscriptions
inscription
Wa-kull ma badharahu al-Raman la-mu'awwal
inscription_translation
Below each roundel is a rectangular band containing a "kufic" inscription:
"Everything that the Merciful One has revealed is to be relied on."
citations
citation
Shepherd, Dorothy. "A Persian Textile of the Buyid Period." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>41, no. 3 (March 1954): 52–55.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 52; Mentioned: p. 55
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 677
citation
<em>Persian Art Before And After the Mongol Conquest.: [Exhibition] April 9-May 17, 1959. the University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor</em>. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Museum of Art, 1959.
page_number
Mentioned: cat. no. 109, p. 40; Reproduced: p. 66
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 215
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 215
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 272
citation
Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. "Reevaluating the Date of the "Buyid" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis." <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 22 (1992): 1–41.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 30; Mentioned: p. 15
citation
Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 154, fig. 4a; Mentioned: pp. 154–155
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 06:36:34.182000
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128065
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Textiles
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T - Islamic
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Silk: diasper, tabby weave
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0
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