Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars
1100–1949
- Medium
- lampas weave, silk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 9 x 10.5 cm (3 9/16 x 4 1/8 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.