Description
Against a diaper-patterned background are roundels each containing a Tree of Life flanked by a lion and dragon in combat, birds, and griffins. The rondels are framed with a frieze of running animals. Twelve-sided figures in the interspaces enclose diamonds with pairs of confronted birds and animals flanking another Tree of Life.
Provenance
Teheran Market; (Nassiri Amini, Tehran, Iran, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1968); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1968-)
Accession Number
1968.221
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Dimensions
Overall: 50.8 x 71.1 cm (20 x 28 in.)
Classification
Textile
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
