Fragments from a Garment with Inscription
1900s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Fragments from a Garment with Inscription, 1900s. Iran or Iraq. Silk: lampas weave, brocaded; average: 26.5 x 48.7 cm (10 7/16 x 19 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. G. Kay Robertson in memory of William J. Robertson 1986.176 These two fragments are a portion of a sleeve and the neck edge of a garment. Centered below the neckline is a T-shaped cartouche bordered with a block motif and enclosing two lines of inscription.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Silk: lampas weave, brocaded
- Dimensions
- Average: 26.5 x 48.7 cm (10 7/16 x 19 3/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Centered below the neckline is a T-shaped cartouche bordered with a block motif and enclosing two lines of inscription: 1) "[For] the use of Abu al-'Abbas 'Ali bin Mubarak bin Fudalah bin" and 2) "Muhammad bin Khalaf bin Marzuban al Jahshiyari."
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1986.176
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. G. Kay Robertson in memory of William J. Robertson
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review for 1986
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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