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Fragment with peacocks and sphinxes

Persian or Mesopotamian
Buyid or Seljuk Dynasties
12th century
Object Place: Iran, excavated at Rayy

Medium/Technique Silk plain weave with supplementary pattern wefts
Dimensions 36 x 26 cm (14 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Frederick Brown Fund
Accession Number31.403
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionGround: pale neutral brown silk warp, almost entirely covering light neutral yellowish green silk weft. Irregular vertical ribs formed by spacing of warp threads. Between four, or more warp threads a space permits the weft to show forming a vertical depression. Design: formed by neutral yellowish weft tied by every 5th-11th warp. Ogival compartments framed by simulated scripts enclosing confronted peacocks. Lions conventionalized. In the spaces between, apparently winged, back to back but with heads turned. Irregular, brittle, pieced with brown stain in upper right and dark-stained below.
ProvenanceFrederick Brown Fund, May 28, 1931.