Panel with Hunters and Camel and Inscription
1900s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Panel with Hunters and Camel and Inscription, 1900s. Iran. Silk: lampas weave; overall: 101.5 x 43 cm (39 15/16 x 16 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1988.99 On the upper part of the fragment, a kneeling archer aims to the left. On the opposite side of a tree, another archer aims toward a camel. The animal’s mouth is open with its tongue extended in surprise as a large feline pounces on its back.
The Arabic inscription along the left edge gives a spurious date and name of the purported maker.
The Arabic inscription along the left edge gives a spurious date and name of the purported maker.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Dimensions
- Overall: 101.5 x 43 cm (39 15/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: along the left edge is an Arabic inscription translating: "Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Nasir made it in the year three and two hundred [i.e. 818-819 AD]."
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1988.99
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Year in Review for 1988
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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