Silk Fragments with Palmette Blossoms
700–799
- Medium
- Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 22.5 x 29.5 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.); Mounted: 27.9 x 34.9 cm (11 x 13 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258)
About
The stunning pattern of palmettes within diamond-shaped compartments is still visible in this rare four-color silk, despite its fragile state. Small human faces within circles appear at the points of the diamonds.