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.
Provenance
(Nassiri Amini, Tehran, Iran, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1968); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1968-)
Accession Number
1968.235
Medium
Silk: compound tabby
Dimensions
Overall: 54 x 53 cm (21 1/4 x 20 7/8 in.)
Classification
Textile
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund