Velvet panel with four youths smelling flowers
1625–50
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Velvet panel with four youths smelling flowers, 1625–50. Iran, Isfahan or Yazd, Safavid period (1501-1722). Silk: velvet, brocaded, and pile-warp substitution; gilt- and silver-metal thread; overall: 157.5 x 72.7 cm (62 x 28 5/8 in.); mounted: 167.6 x 83.2 cm (66 x 32 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1932.42
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Velvet
- Formatted Medium
- Silk: velvet, brocaded, and pile-warp substitution; gilt- and silver-metal thread
- Medium
- silk, velvet, brocaded, pile-warp, substitution, gilt-, silver-metal, thread
- Dimensions
- Overall: 157.5 x 72.7 cm (62 x 28 5/8 in.); Mounted: 167.6 x 83.2 cm (66 x 32 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1932.42
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, 2000 Years of Silk Weaving, The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran, Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900, <em>Woven Treasures of Persian Art; Persian Textiles from the 6th to the 19th Century</em>. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (April 1-May 23, 1959)., <em>7000 ans d'art en Iran</em>. Petit Palais, Paris, France (October 1961-January 1962).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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