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Carpet - Iran - 16th century - MET - Inventory number 10.61.2   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Carpet - Iran - 16th century - MET - Inventory number 10.61.2
Description
Textiles ;Rugs ; carpets
Date 16th century
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions Rug: L. 140 in. (355.6 cm) W. 71 1/4 in. (181 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Islamic Art, gallery 458 (Carpets for Kings: Six Masterpieces of Iranian Weaving, exhibition March 3–August 27, 2017 )
Accession number
10.61.2
Place of creation Iran
Object history Vincent Robinson & Co., London, in 1892; sold to Yerkes]; Charles Tyson Yerkes, New York, after 1892–d. 1905; his estate 1905–10, sold to MMA
Exhibition history Carpets for Kings: Six Masterpieces of Iranian Weaving, exhibition March 3–August 27, 2017, MET
Credit line Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1910
Notes

Safavid period

This carpet comes from the shrine of Shaikh Safi at Ardabil, the dynastic shrine of the Safavids. The shrine attracted gifts from royalty, including the most famous pair of carpets from the mid-sixteenth century, made for a prayer hall commissioned by Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-76). With its pairs of lions attacking stags, tigers, hares, bears, foxes and wolves across a field of vines and blossoms, this carpet, however, would not have been used in spaces designated for prayer and instead may have served as a floor covering in the refectory of dormitory (copy from :http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/445995).
References

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/445995

Vincent J. Robinson. Eastern Carpets. London, 1882.

Dimand, Maurice S. A Handbook of Muhammadan Art. 2nd rev. and enl. ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944. p. 290, ill. fig. 192 (b/w).

Dimand, Maurice S., and Jean Mailey. Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973. no. 11, pp. 52, 100, ill. fig. 75 (b/w)..
Source/Photographer http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/is/original/SC152659.jpg

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