Flower, Birds, and Profile Animal Mola Panel

Cleveland Museum of Art

Red square textile with a black background, featuring colorful embroidery. The textile, "Flower, Birds, and Profile Animal Mola Panel" by an unknown artist, has a red background with a rough edge. It is decorated with colorful embroidery in shades of pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. The embroidery depicts two birds on either side, one facing left and one facing right, with a flower in the center and an animal with a profile view on the right side. The birds have distinctive features: the left bird has a large eye and a long beak, while the right bird has a smaller eye and a shorter beak. The animal on the right has a large eye and a curved body. Small, triangular shapes in various colors are scattered throughout the design. The overall design is symmetrical, with identical patterns on either side of the central flower.