Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars
1521–1955
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Dimensions
- Overall: 26.5 x 100.5 cm (10 7/16 x 39 9/16 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
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 nonregardant rabbits in mirror image against a foliate background, patterned in white on a light pinkish-tan ground.