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Textile fragment with hare in interlaced octagons

11th–12th century
Object PlaceIran
Medium/TechniqueSilk triple cloth
DimensionsWidth x length: 19.7 x 14.6 cm (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.)
Credit LineSeth K. Sweetser Fund
Accession number51.252
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
InscriptionsAn Arabic inscription beside each falconer read, "The exalted army chief, may God aid him."
ProvenanceCharles Ratton, Paris; sold by Ratton to Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles; 1951, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $280. (Accession Date: February 8, 1951)
Textile fragment
17th century
Group shot: 98.963, 98.968
late 16th or 17th century
Border fragment
about 500 B.C.
Altar carpet
about 1865
Handkerchief
first half of the 19th century
19th century
Textile fragment with port scenes (?)
Late 16th or early 17th century
late 19th–early 20th century
Gavin Morton
about 1900