Fragment with Equestrian Falconer King

Description

In three rows, this fragment preserves nine complete aligned, tangent roundels, each containing a king on horseback with a falcon in his left hand and a leafy branch in his right. The border of each roundel is ornamented with a scrolling foliate vine. Interspaces contain oval medallions enclosing an eight-pointed star within which is a four-directional palmette. Joining the roundels at their cardinal points are cross-shaped geometric figures.

According to recent analysis of the museum’s Buyid and Abbasid textile materials, some have been identified as modern reproductions.

Provenance

(Nassiri Amini, Tehran, Iran, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1971); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1971-)

Fragment with Equestrian Falconer King

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prior to 1971

Accession Number

1971.23

Medium

Silk: lampas weave

Dimensions

Overall: 103.2 x 86.4 cm (40 5/8 x 34 in.)

Classification

Textile

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund