Fragment with Double-Headed "Simurgh"-Eagles
before 1953
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Fragment with Double-Headed "Simurgh"-Eagles, before 1953. Iran or Iraq. Silk: lampas weave; overall: 47.6 x 49.5 cm (18 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.434
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Dimensions
- Overall: 47.6 x 49.5 cm (18 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: man taba asluhu zakiya fi'luhu Translation: He whose origin is good acts virtuously. Remark: Each inscription repeats in orthograde and retrograde the phrase. Inscription: man kabirat himmathuhu kathurat qimatuhu Translation: He who occupies himself with great things--his value increases. Remark: The inscription on the right and left wings of the simurgh, eagle.
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1953.434
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- East-West in Art, <em>Persian Art: Before and After the Mongol Conquest</em>. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, (April 6-May 17, 1959)., <em>East-West in Art</em>. Indiana University Museum, Bloomington, IN (June 22-October 15, 1966).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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