Fragment of a Caftan
935–1982
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Dimensions
- Overall: 141.5 x 156.5 cm (55 11/16 x 61 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
About
This fragment from a caftan features large-scale flattened octagons with pearled borders that contain a royal hunting scene: a king mounted on a running horse draws his bow at a rampant lion. Two dogs with their tongues out also run towards the lion. The star-shaped interspaces are filled with four radiating palmettes.