Fragment with Octagons and Four-Pointed Stars
Unknown Artist
1521–1955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Dimensions
26.5 × 100.5 cm
Classification
Textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
1982.281
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The design consists of aligned large-scale octagons and four-pointed star-shaped interspaces filled with leafy scrolls. Each octagon encloses pairs of regardant gazelles and nonregardant rabbits in mirror image against a foliate background, patterned in white on a light pinkish-tan ground.