Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals
900–1982
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Dimensions
- Overall: 39 x 22 cm (15 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Iran, style of the Abbasid period (750–1258) or Buyid period (945–1055)
About
The design originally consisted of a Tree of Life flanked by paired ibexes being pursued by a royal hunter. The latter, mounted on a fantastic creature, wears a Sasanian crown and holds a long spear. The fragment preserves most of the design to the right of the central tree, but only half of an ibex to the left of the tree.