Tent panel of a dragon slayer
1550–99
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Tent panel of a dragon slayer, 1550–99. Iran, Yazd[?], reign of Shah Tahmasp, Safavid period (1501-1736). Velvet, cut, voided, brocaded, and pile-warp substitution: silk and gilt-metal strips; overall: 71.1 x 55.6 cm (28 x 21 7/8 in.); mounted: 81.3 x 66 cm (32 x 26 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.205 Originally the ivory ground was covered with costly gilt-metal strips, which may have been removed for their monetary value.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Velvet
- Formatted Medium
- velvet, cut, voided, brocaded, and pile-warp substitution: silk and gilt-metal strips
- Medium
- velvet, cut, voided, brocaded, pile-warp, substitution, silk, gilt-metal, strips
- Dimensions
- Overall: 71.1 x 55.6 cm (28 x 21 7/8 in.); Mounted: 81.3 x 66 cm (32 x 26 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1948.205
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Islamic Art, Islamic art rotation, Muhammad Shah's Royal Persian Tent, <em>International Exhibition of Persian Art</em>. Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (January 7-March 7, 1931)., <em>Islamic Art Across the World</em>. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN (June 18-October 1, 1970).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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