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Polonaise carpet with flying cranes - Kashan (Iran) - 16-17th century - MET - Inventory number 43.84   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Polonaise carpet with flying cranes - Kashan (Iran) - 16-17th century - MET - Inventory number 43.84
Description
Textiles ;Rugs ; carpets
Date late 16th–early 17th century
Medium Silk, metal wrapped thread; tapestry weave
Dimensions Textile: H. 87 in. (221 cm) W. 58 1/2 in (148.6 cm) Mount: H. 95 1/2 in. (242.6 cm) W. 66 1/2 in. (168.9 cm) D. 2 in. (5.1 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
43.84
Place of creation probably Kashan (Iran)
Object history Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington; [ P. W. French and Company, New York, until 1943; sold to MMA]
Exhibition history

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Making the Invisible Visible," April 2, 2013–August 4, 2013, no catalogue.

Carpets for Kings: Six Masterpieces of Iranian Weaving, exhibition March 3–August 27, 2017, MET
Credit line Purchase, Rogers Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, by exchange, 1943
Notes

Safavid period

Carpets of this type are known to have been sold to Polish nobility in the early seventeenth century and others were presented as gifts by Shah Abbas I (reigned 1587–1629). This tapestry-woven carpet with threads wrapped in precious metal belongs to a group produced in Kashan in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Unlike carpets produced for shrines, this example contains a central lobed medallion with flying cranes, a motif repeated in the four corner pieces.
References Dimand, Maurice S., and Jean Mailey. Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973. no. 24, pp. 65, 105, ill. fig. 91 (b/w).
Source/Photographer https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/450506


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