Category:Silk Animal Carpet - 16th century - Kashan(?), Iran - MET - Inventory number 14.40.721

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Silk Animal Carpet  wikidata:Q29385030 reasonator:Q29385030
Title
Silk Animal Carpet
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Object type carpet Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Carpet; Textiles-Rugs
Date second half 16th century
Medium Silk (warp, weft, and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions

Rug: L. 94 7/8 in. (241 cm) 

        W. 70 1/16 in. (178 cm)

Mount: L. 103 1/4 in. (262.3 cm) 

            W. 78 in. (198.1 cm)
            D. 3 in. (7.6 cm)
Wt. 206 lbs. (93.4 kg)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Islamic Art
Accession number
14.40.721
Place of creation Made in Iran, probably Kashan
Object history Prince Princezza, Evora, Portugal; Edouard Chappey, Paris (until 1907; sale Galerie Georges Petit,Paris, June 5–7, 1907, lot 1912, sold to Altman); Benjamin Altman, New York (1907–d. 1913; bequeathed to MMA)
Exhibition history The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Four Silk Kashan Rugs," August 2, 1994–February 5, 1994, no catalogue.
Credit line Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Notes

Safavid period.

This silk rug demonstrates the part played by the miniaturist in designing rug cartoons. Neither the symmetry usually associated with carpet designs nor the repeat patterns of textiles is evident here. Animals, including fantastic beasts of Chinese origin, arranged singly or in groups, are pictorially laid out in a landscape of flowering plants. As in most Persian carpets, the animals are engaged in combat—possibly evoking the underlying symbolism of a cosmological order dating back to pre-Islamic times as well as referring to the hunt, a symbol of royal power (copy from http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/446642)
References

Harari, Ralph, and Richard Ettinghausen. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, edited by Arthur Upham Pope. Vol. I-VI. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. ill. vol. 6, pl. 1245, (related).

Dimand, Maurice S. A Handbook of Muhammadan Art. 2nd rev. and enl. ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944. p. 293, ill. fig. 194 (b/w).

Erdmann, Kurt. Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets, edited by Hanna Erdmann. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1970. pp. 61–65.

Dimand, Maurice S., and Jean Mailey. Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973. no. 13, pp. 101, 142-143, ill. fig. 79.

Ellis, Charles. Oriental Carpets in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988. p. 171.

Ekhtiar, Maryam, Sheila R. Canby, Navina Haidar, and Priscilla P. Soucek, ed. Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1st ed. ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. no. 182, pp. 4, 261-263, ill. p. 262 (color).

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Depictsflower, animal, bird, dragon, deer, ram, tiger and lion
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, New York
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  • 17th century (after 1650, before 1699)
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The Met object ID: 446642
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