Textile Fragment with Peacocks and Deer Yale University Art Gallery

10th century

Medium: Silk with compound weave
Dimensions: 37 × 23 1/16 in. (94 × 58.5 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1941.276
Geography: Iran, Tarsus, Turkey
Culture: Iranian/Persian, Islamic
Period: Abbasid dynasty (750–1258)
Classification: Textiles
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Provenance

Said to have been found at Bibi Shahr Banu in 1925; Arthur Upham Pope (1881–1969); Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955) New York, purchased in New York in 1941; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Inscriptions

On the wings of the peacock are the words "al Malik" in arabic letters.

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