Fragment with Griffins in Roundels
1100–1982
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Dimensions
- Overall: 35.5 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037–1194)
About
This fragment preserves rows of tangent roundels, each containing pair of griffins flanking a tree. Borders of the roundels are ornamented with small medallions enclosing animals or a floral device. The interspaces between roundels are filled with geometric floral figures.