File:Northeast Iran - Cloth of gold with felines and eagles - 1990.2 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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Cloth of gold with felines and eagles
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Cloth of gold with felines and eagles |
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| Object type | textile | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mongol taste for luxury was equated with gold, symbol of imperial authority, power, and legitimacy. This splendid cloth of gold-exceptionally large and luxurious-may have enriched the interior of a palace or a majestic tent. The golden pattern, although tarnished on the faded red silk ground, features scalloped medallions with felines whose long tails terminate in dragons’ heads amid elegant floral vines. Double-headed eagles form interstitial motifs on the floral ground. A radiant gold-on-gold band of pseudo-Arabic script enriches the top, woven with gold strips wrapped around a silk core on a ground of flat strips of gold, immediately beneath the pattern testing area. |
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| Date | between 1225 and 1275 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Lampas: silk and gold thread | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 170.5 x 109 cm (67 1/8 x 42 15/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1990.2 |
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| Place of creation | Northeast Iran | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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