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Source Description
This textile consists of two fragments mounted together. They are woven with floral roundels that enclose horsemen hunting lions. The theme of riders hunting with lances, the floral frames of the roundels, and the costumes of the hunters were all inspired by silks from the Byzantine world. The stiff, abstracted style, however, is characteristic of Sogdian silks, woven in Sogdiana in Central Asia and often traded to distant markets. These fragments were preserved in a grave in Egypt where they were found sewn as ornaments onto a tunic.
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135579
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Roundels with Hunters
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135579
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Roundels with Hunters
description
This textile consists of two fragments mounted together. They are woven with floral roundels that enclose horsemen hunting lions. The theme of riders hunting with lances, the floral frames of the roundels, and the costumes of the hunters were all inspired by silks from the Byzantine world. The stiff, abstracted style, however, is characteristic of Sogdian silks, woven in Sogdiana in Central Asia and often traded to distant markets. These fragments were preserved in a grave in Egypt where they were found sewn as ornaments onto a tunic.
date
800s
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CC0
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en
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Q60757919
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Textile
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Overall: 26.5 x 25.5 cm (10 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.); Mounted: 46.4 x 74.3 cm (18 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.)
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Eastern Iran or Central Asia
accession
1959.124
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Silk: samite weave
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Roundels with Hunters, 800s. Eastern Iran or Central Asia. Silk: samite weave; overall: 26.5 x 25.5 cm (10 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.); mounted: 46.4 x 74.3 cm (18 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Art Alliance, 1959.124
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Textiles
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150895
description
Roundels with Hunters, 800s. Eastern Iran or Central Asia. Silk: samite weave; overall: 26 x 29 cm (10 1/4 x 11 7/16 in.); mounted: 46.4 x 74.3 cm (18 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1982.284
didYouKnow
The two roundels have different diameters, even though the number of warps per repeat is the same.
citations
citation
Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Medieval Persian Silks in Fact and Fancy: A Refutation of the Riggisberg Report.” <em>Bulletin Du Cieta, Centre International D'étude Des Textiles Anciens</em> 1974, no. 39-40
page_number
Reproduced and mentioned: p. 131, fig. 53
citation
Shepherd, Dorothy G. "Zandanījī Revisited" In Müller-Christensen, Sigrid, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Karen Stolleis. <em>Documenta textilia: Festschrift für Sigrid Müller-Christensen</em>. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981.
page_number
Reproduced and mentioend: p. 105-122, cat. 98, fig. 4
citation
Wardwell, Anne E. <em>Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984</em>. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984.
page_number
Reproduced and mentioned: p. 14, cat. 16
citation
Neils, Jenifer. "The Twain Shall Meet." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 359, no. 90
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25159914
citation
Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. <em>When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams,
page_number
Reproduced and mentioned: p. 31, no. 2
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. 63, fig. 2.26; Mentioned: P. 61
creditline
Gift of The Textile Art Alliance
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2026-05-29 06:55:47.321000
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135579
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Textiles
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Textiles
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Silk: samite weave
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