textile fragment

Not on Display

Geography:
Iran
Materials:
silk; metallic-wrapped silk; foil, silver
Collection:
The Textile Museum Collection
Accession Number:
3.280
Credit Line:
Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1947
Date:
16th century-17th century;
Copyright:
Public domain
Object Type:
Textile
Dimensions:
31.27 L x 15.88 W cm (12 5/16 L x 6 1/4 W in)
Structure:
double cloth; plain weave
Style:
Safavid
Provenance:
Adolph Loewi (who sold Myers this piece) bought a collection of these fragments from Giorgio Sangiorgi in Rome in 1946 Loewi sold a fragment to the MMA while residing in Venice and Los Angeles, could have been the same situation with Myers -AS
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Bibliography:
Anthony Welch (Author), Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, Asia House Gallery , Asia Society , New York, NY, 1979, p. 137, cat. no. 54
Cyndi Bohlin (Co-Editor) and Molly McMullen (Co-Editor), The Textile Museum Bulletin, The Textile Museum Bulletin, Washington, D.C., Spring 2007, p. 12, detail
Arthur Upham Pope (Author) and Phyllis Ackerman (Editor), A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, SOPA, Ashiya, 1981, vol. 12, pl. 1035
Louise W. Mackie (Author), Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2015, p. 363, fig. 9.21
Cyril G. E. Bunt (Author), Persian Fabrics, F. Lewis, Publishers, Leigh-On-Sea, London, England, 1963, Fig. 22
Carol Bier (Editor), Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran 16th-19th Centuries, The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., 1987, p. 185, cat. no. 25
Anthony Welch (Author), Shah 'Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, The Asia Society Inc., New York, NY, 1973, no. 19
Shelia Canby (Author), The Golden Age of Persian Art, The British Museum Press, London, 1999, p. 74, fig.61
Louise W. Mackie (Author), "Increase the Prestige: Islamic Textiles", Arts of Asia, Arts of Asia, Hong Kong, 1996, vol. 26, no. 1, p. 89, fig. 68
Sylvia Houghteling (Author), The Art of Cloth in Mughal India, Princeton University Press, Fall2021/Winter2022, p. 86, fig. 2.11
"Scene from Nizama's Khamsa", The Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2022, No. 46.156.7
Maryam D. Ekhtiar (Editor) and Priscilla P. Soucek (Editor) and Sheila R. Canby (Editor) and Navina Najat Haidar (Editor), Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011, p. 248-249, cat. no. 172
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Exhibition History:
It Is Written: Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, The Asia Society, New York, NY, January 11, 1979-March 11, 1979; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, April 9, 1979-May 20, 1979; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, June 7, 1979-August 6, 1979; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, October 21, 1979
Selections from the Textile Museum Collections, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington DC, May 19, 2018 - February 24, 2019
RED, February 02, 2007 - July 08, 2007
Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of the Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th - 19th centuries, September 12, 1987 - February 11, 1988
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