Object Details
- Description
- Fragment containing an incomplete roundel enclosing a pair of confronted lions. The roundel has a dentate outer border, and an inner border which is a debased rendering of the Sassanian pearl motive, in which the pearls are squared off. Scaled outlines to all parts of the design. In dark blue, greenish-tan, cream, and at least one other shade of light tan on golden tan ground (all possibly faded).
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 10th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
- Medium
- Medium: silk Technique: 2\1 twill with complementary wefts and inner warps Label: silk twill with complementary wefts
- Dimensions
- H x W: 15.6 × 27.6 cm (6 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
- Type
- woven textiles
- Fragment
