Fragment with Inscription

Description

An archer kneels to left of a tree and the hill to shoot at pair of deer. The polychrome design is repeated across horizontal rows on dark brown ground.

Provenance

(Spink & Son, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1982); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1982-)

Fragment with Inscription

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dated 818 (AH 203), but before 1978

Accession Number

1982.17

Medium

Silk: compound weave

Dimensions

Overall: 66.5 x 45 cm (26 3/16 x 17 11/16 in.)

Classification

Textile

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund