Textile Fragment with Confronted Peacocks | Yale University Art Gallery

11th–12th century

Medium: Silk, compound twill weave
Dimensions: 11 13/16 × 15 1/16 in. (30 × 38.2 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1937.4617
Geography: Possibly Yazd, Iran
Culture: Iranian/Persian, Islamic
Period: Abbasid dynasty (750–1258)
Classification: Textiles
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Provenance

Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York, purchased in Paris in 1936; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, 6 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), 2010, vol. 3, pl. 986B

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