File:Animal combat carpet (Museum für angewandte Kunst T 8334).jpg
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English: Animal combat carpet. Stylistically, this carpet is close to the art of the Timurid period from Herat, but a more plausible place of production seems to be southern Iran. The carpet has a counterpart in the so-called 'Emperor's Carpet' in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (MET 43.121.1). The motifs of the immensely fine design are mirrored four times on a red ground around the horizontal and vertical axes; fantasy blossoms alternate with animal depictions and Chinese-inspired cloudbands. Moreover, the contrasting green-grounded border exhibits three delicate tendril systems laid on top of each other. In the accompanying border, a poem by the 12th-century poet Zahir Faryabi, written in nasta `liq script, praises love, nature and the king of the world, for whom the pair of carpets was made. Iran, Mid-16th century. Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, T 8334 |
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Date | Mid-16th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q478455 |
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T 8334 |
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References | Herat Teppich, Spiralranken und Tieren; Animal combat carpet | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://sammlung.mak.at/sammlung_online?id=collect-98329 |
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