Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars
1100–1949
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Dimensions
- Overall: 25.5 x 20.5 cm (10 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037–1194)
About
The design consists of aligned large-scale octagons and four-pointed star-shaped interspaces filled with leafy scrolls. Each octagon encloses pairs of regardant gazelles and non-regardant rabbits in mirror image against a foliate background, patterned in white on a light pinkish-tan ground. Framing the octagon is a Kufic inscription repeated in orthograde and retrograde around the central design.