Roundels with hunters
800s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Roundels with hunters, 800s. Eastern Iran or Central Asia. Samite: silk; overall: 26.5 x 25.5 cm (10 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Art Alliance 1959.124 This textile consists of two fragments mounted together (1959.124 and 1982.284). The two roundels have different diameters, even though the number of warps per repeat is the same.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- samite: silk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 26.5 x 25.5 cm (10 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1959.124
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Textile Art Alliance
- Exhibitions
- Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, The Twain Shall Meet, When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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