Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread
1600–1625
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread, 1600–1625. Iran, Isfahan, Safavid period (1501-1722). Cotton: warp; cotton and silk: wefts; silk: pile, asymmetrical knot; gilt- and silver-metal thread: brocaded; overall: 236.2 x 143.5 cm (93 x 56 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1926.533 16th- and 17th-century Iranian carpets with silk and metal thread were mistakenly called "Polish," based on one displayed in the Polish exhibit at the Paris World Fair in 1878.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Carpet
- Formatted Medium
- Cotton: warp; cotton and silk: wefts; silk: pile, asymmetrical knot; gilt- and silver-metal thread: brocaded
- Dimensions
- Overall: 236.2 x 143.5 cm (93 x 56 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1926.533
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Islamic Art, Arts of Islam, Islamic Gallery 206 Rotation, Islamic art rotation, Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation), <em>Exhibition of Islamic Art</em>. De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 24-March 22, 1937)., <em>Islamic Art Across the World: An Exhibition Prepared by Theodore Bowie in Partial Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Indiana University</em>. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (June 18-October 1, 1970)., <em>The Arts of Islam</em>. The Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (April 8-July 4, 1976).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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