Textile Fragment with an Ibex Maker: Unknown

6th–early 7th century c.e.

Asian Art

Not on view

The leaping ibex on this tapestry appears to be a royal icon, so designated by his collar, with its jewels and fluttering ribbons. The ibex has an affinity to the wild goats found on prehistoric painted pottery, but is depicted here in an Achaemenid manner: haughty, with characteristic double lines around the almost human eyes, the neck drawn stiffly back.

Medium

Wool, dovetailed-tapestry weave

Dimensions

10 13/16 × 14 15/16 in. (27.5 × 38 cm)
framed: 29 5/8 × 23 3/4 in. (75.2 × 60.3 cm)

Credit Line

Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore

Accession Number

1937.4604

Geography

Iran

Culture

Iranian/Persian

Period

Sassanian Empire (224–651 C.E.)

Classification

Textiles

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Provenance
Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York, acquired in Paris in 1935; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 80–81, fig. 70
  • Dorothy E. Miner, ed., Early Christian and Byzantine Art: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25–June 22, exh. cat. (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 1947), 161, no. 824, pl. CXV
  • Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, 6 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), 708, 715, fig. 249
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

fragments, textiles

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