Two-faced Carpet Fragment
1100–1199
- Medium
- senna knot
- Dimensions
- Overall: 39.3 x 16.2 cm (15 1/2 x 6 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Iran, Seljuq period (1037–1194)
About
This fragment preserves portions of designs of two faces of a carpet. One design depicts a stylized tulip with part of its mirror image. The opposite side depicts a pair of winged ibexes oriented at right angles to the "tulip" design.