Classical Safavid Persian Carpets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  
Safavid Carpet

Carpet with a Compartment Design

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
first half 16th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: H. 196 in. (497.8 cm) W. 134 in. (340.4 cm) Tube: H. 146 in. (370.8 cm) Weight: 79 lbs. (198 lbs. rolled on tube. tube is 119 lbs. empty) Diam. 20 in. (50.8 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1910
Accession Number:
10.61.3

[ Vincent Robinson & Co. , until at least 1882; to Thiem]; Adolph Thiem, Berlin (after 1882–ca. 1895; sold to Yerkes); Charles Tyson Yerkes , New York (until d. 1905; his estate,1905–10; sold to MMA)
Safavid Carpet

The Anhalt Medallion Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
probably first half 16th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Cotton (warp), silk (weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: H. 317 1/2 in. (806.5 cm) W. 167 in. (424.2 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1946
Accession Number:
46.128
Dukes of Anhalt, Dessau, Germany (after 1683); Sir Joseph Duveen , London (by 1931–d. 1939); [ Duveen Brothers, London , by 1940]; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York (until 1946)
Safavid Carpet

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
16th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 140 in. (355.6 cm) W. 71 1/4 in. (181 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1910
Accession Number:
10.61.2
Safavid Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
second half 16th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 299 in. (759.5 cm) W. 133 1/2 in. (339.1 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1943
Accession Number:
43.121.1
One of the finest products of the Safavid court ateliers, this carpet once adorned the summer residence of the Habsburg emperors. The main field balances a sophisticated net of floral scrolls, large composite palmettes, cloud bands, buds, and blossoms with a myriad of real and fictional animals—dragons and Chinese antelope, lion and buffalo, tigers and leopards, ducks and pheasants. A verse found in the inner guard band likens a garden in springtime to the Garden of Paradise.
Safavid Carpet fragment

Fragment of a Carpet with Cartouche Border

Object Name:
Fragment
Date:
late 16th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 43 in. (109.2 cm) W. 49 in. (124.5 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1970
Accession Number:
1970.302.1
Safavid Carpet

The Seley Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
late 16th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk (warp), cotton (weft), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 280 in. (711.2 cm) W. 121 in. (307.3 cm) Tube: L. 157 in. (398.8 cm) Diam. 21 in. (53.3cm) Wt. 86 lbs. (39 kg) (carpet was weighed with 120 lb. tube at 204 lbs.)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Presented in memory of Richard Ettinghausen, Gift of Louis E., Theresa S., Hervey, and Elliot Jay Seley, and Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick and Fletcher Funds, 1978
Accession Number:
1978.550

This is one of the finest Persian carpets known, produced at a time when the art of carpet weaving had achieved its greatest heights under the patronage of the Safavid shahs in the sixteenth century. Striking in the harmony of its pattern and color, this carpet combines the medallion scheme adapted from bookbindings with a field composed of a well-planned system of floral forms on scrolling vines and floating cloud bands of Chinese derivation.

 
Tabriz fragment

Fragment of a Northwest Persian Medallion Carpet

Object Name:
Fragment
Date:
early 16th century
Geography:
Northwestern Iran
Medium:
Cotton (warp), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 38 1/2 in. (97.8 cm) W. 28 in. (71.1 cm) Mount: L. 45 5/8 in. (115.9 in.) W. 35 1/2 in. (90.2 cm) D. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm) Wt. 32 lbs. (14.5 kg)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922
Accession Number:
22.100.67

 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
16th century
Geography:
Northwestern Iran
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 487 1/2 in. (1238.3 cm) W. 182 3/4 in. (464.2 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941
Accession Number:
41.100.113
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
16th century
Geography:
Northern Iran
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 273 in. (693.4 cm) W. 106 1/4 in. (269.9 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Accession Number:
14.40.718
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
16th century
Geography:
Northwestern Iran
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 338 in. (858.5 cm) W. 128 in. (325.1 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1964
Accession Number:
64.311
 Safavid Carpet
 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
16th century
Geography:
Northwestern Iran
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
H: 230 in. (584.2 cm) W: 94 in. (238.8 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922
Accession Number:
22.100.75
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Northwestern Iran
Medium:
Wool (warp, weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
H: 215 in. (546.1 cm) with fringe H: 211 3/4 in. (537.8 cm) without fringe W: 102 3/4 in. (261 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922
Accession Number:
22.100.74
 Safavid Carpet
 

Tree design

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
ca. 1700
Geography:
Northwestern Iran or Kurdistan
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
L. 262 in. (665.5 cm) W. 92 3/4 in. (235.6 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1960
Accession Number:
60.32
 
 
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
16th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile), metal wrapped thread; asymmetrical knotted pile, brocaded
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 168 in. (426.7 cm) W. 79 in. (200.7 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of George F. Baker, 1932
Accession Number:
32.16
 
 
Safavid Prayer Rug 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
16th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk (warp and weft) Wool (pile) metal wrapped thread; asymmetricaly knotted thread, brocaded
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 63 1/2 in. (161.3 cm) W. 43 1/4 in. (109.9 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917
Accession Number:
17.120.124
Inscription: Definition: Qur'anic Location: Outer guard band:Qur'an, ch. II, vv. 285, 286 Main border: ch. II, v. 256; Inner guard band, ch.VII, vv.203-5; Border of niche: ch. XIII, vv. 16, 17, ch. LVII, v. 3, ch. LIX, vv. 23, 24; In compartments of spandrels, titles of Allah; In cartouche in niche: Allah is the greaatest, the great. Translation: Inscriptions: (N. Martinovitch, see notes) Outer guard band: Koran, ch. II, vv. 285, 286 Main border: Koran, ch. II, v. 256 Inner guard band: ch. VII, vv. 203-205 Border of niche: ch. XIII, vv. 16, 17, ch. LVII, v. 3, ch. LIX, vv. 23, 24. In compartments of spandrels, titles of Allah. In cartouche in niche: Allah is the greatest, the great. Extracts from Koran 1 a: The prophet believeth in what is sent down unto him, as well as the faithful believe. They all believe in God, in His angels, in His books and in all his prophets; declaring, we make no distinction between any of his prophets. And they say; we have heard and obeyed; we seek thy forgiveness, our Lord! And to Thee, all things shall return. God imposes no task upon any soul but according to its capacity. Extracts from Koran 1 B: It will enjoy the fruit of the good it has done and will bear penalty for evil it has committed. Our Lord! Take us not to task if we forget or commit fault without intention. Our Lord! Place no heavy burden upon us as thou hast put upon those who were before us. Koran II, vv. 285,286 (Ali) Extracts from Koran 2: He is God. There is no God besides Him, the living, the sustaining. No sleep overtakes him, nor does slumber. Unto Him belongeth what is in the heavens and earth. Who can intercede with Him without His permission? He knows whatever lies before them and whatever lies behind them. They cannot compass anything of His knowledge, excepting that which He wisheth. His throne contains the heavens and the earth. He does not grow fatigued in watching over them and He is knowing and wise. Koran II, v. 255 (Ali) Extracts from Koran 3: And if the Koran is read you must listen because it is the word of the Creator. Call upon your God and He will have mercy on you. He will deliver you from your enemies. Do not be like those who sleep, for religion is the principal thing to God, and those who do not kneel and pray will be punished by Him. Koran VII, vv. 204-6. Extracts from Koran 4. He is God, He besides Whom there is no other God. He is the King, the holy, the peace-bestower, the faithful, the glorious, the honorable, the Almighty, the lord of pride. Exalted is God, the Creator, the giver of life, the framer of form. Unto Him belong the most beautiful names. He is the first and the last; the manifest and the hidden; and He knows everything. Koran LIX, vv. 23,24 Extracts from Koran 4b: He is the truth, the clear, the luminous, the praise-worthy, the living, the kingly, the patient, the noble, the chosen, the bestower of bounties and lights of excellence. He is the lord of mercy, lord of power, lord of destiny, lord of compassion. He is the forgiver of sins, bestower of kindness, producer of prosperity and possessor of grandeur and magnificence. Extracts from Koran 5: And unto God pay homage, all that are in the heavens and on earth, willingly and unwillingly, and also do their shadwos, in forenoons and afternoons. Say - "who is the lord of heaven and earth? Say - "God" Say "Have ye then chosen besides Him, as lords, those who possess no power, either to benefit themselves or to guard themselves against harm?"Extract from Koran 6:God is Great. Notes: The verses given by Martinovitch do not correspond exactly with the translation and arrangement of the Qur'an by Maulvi Muhammad Ali. He may have used some other translation. According to Ali the main border is ch. II, v. 255, the inner guard band ch. VII, vv. 204-206. According to trannnsslation in the files (source unknown), the verses of ch. XIII on the border of the niche are 15-17 instead of 16 and 17. (HMcA 18 Ju 36)

 Safavid Carpet 

Silk Animal Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
second half 16th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Kashan
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)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Accession Number:
14.40.721
 silk Kashan carpet 

Silk 'Kashan' Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
16th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Kashan
Medium:
Silk (warp, weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: H. 98 1/16 in. (249 cm) W. 67 5/16 in. (171 cm) Mount:
H. 106 1/2 in. (270.5 cm) W. 75 1/4 in. (191.1 cm) D. 3 in. (7.6 cm)
Object not yet weighed. Test lifted, Estimated weight 200lbs.
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Douglas M. Moffat, 1958
Accession Number:
58.46
 silk Kashan carpet 

Kashan Silk Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
16th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Kashan
Medium:
Silk (warp, weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 96 in. (243.8 cm) W. 65 in. (165.1 cm) Mount:
L. 101 3/4 in. (258.4 cm) W. 72 1/2 in. (184.2 cm) D. 3 in.
(7.6 cm) Estimated weight: 200 lbs.
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Accession Number:
14.40.724
 
 
 Kashan Carpet 
Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
second half 16th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Kashan
Medium:
Silk (warp, weft, and pile), metal wrapped thread;
asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Mount Dimensions: L. 105 1/2 in. (268 cm) W. 76 1/2 in. (194.3 cm)
Weight in mount: 555 lbs (251.7 kg)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Accession Number:
14.40.715
 Safavid silk  Carpet
 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
109 in. high 62.50 in. wide (276.86 cm high 158.75 cm wide)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Byron C. Foy, 1952
Accession Number:
52.136.2
 Safavid Carpet 
Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
first half 17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Kashan
Medium:
Silk, metal-wrapped thread; tapestry weave
Dimensions:
H: 93 in. (236.2 cm) W: 57 in. (144.8 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1931
Accession Number:
31.70
 Kashan Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
late 16th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Kashan
Medium:
Silk, metal wrapped thread; tapestry weave
Dimensions:
H: 84 1/2 in. (214.6 cm) W: 58 1/2 in. (148.6 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1943
Accession Number:
43.84
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
first half 17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Kashan
Medium:
Silk, metal wrapped thread; tapestry weave
Dimensions:
L. 91 x W. 55 in. (231.14 x 139.7 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1951
Accession Number:
51.197
 Persian Carpet 

Carpet

Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk (warp, weft, and pile), metal wrapped thread;
asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 91 1/2 in. (23.4 cm) W. 68 in. (172.7 cm)
Tube: Diam. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm) W. 82 in. (208.3 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1967
Accession Number:
67.2.2
This silk carpet combines an unusually dense weave for a
Persian carpet, with a composition inspired by Flemish tapestry.
While the pictorial scene can be traced to seventeenth-century
Europe, the technique and execution point to the Safavid court
as the source of patronage and production. It is possible that
such carpets were woven in Iran for export or intended as
diplomatic gifts. The smaller scale of the buildings suggests the
influence of European perspective. The border compartments,
whose arrangement is also repeated symmetrically, show figures
in European dress, flower vases, and reclining deer.
 Polonaise Carpet 

The Czartoryski Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Isfahan
Medium:
Cotton (warp), silk (weft and pile), metal wrapped thread; asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded
Dimensions:
Rug: H. 191 1/2 in. (486.4 cm) W. 85 5/8 in. (217.5 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1945
Accession Number:
45.106

Prince Wladyslaw Czartoryski, Krakow, Poland (in 1878); [ Mr. Larcade , Paris, until 1927; sold to Rockefeller]; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. , New York (1927–45)
 Polonaise Carpet 

Polonaise technique

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
first half 17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Isfahan
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), silk (weft and pile), metal-wrapped thread; asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 160 5/8 in. (408 cm) W. 68 1/2 in. (174 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1950
Accession Number:
50.190.3
 Polonaise Carpet 

Polonaise technique

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Isfahan
Medium:
Cotton (warp), silk (weft and pile), metal-wrapped thread; asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 113 in. (287 cm) W. 57 1/2 in. (146.1 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Horace Havemeyer, 1956
Accession Number:
56.185.4
 Polonaise Carpet 

Polonaise Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran, Isfahan or Kashan
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), silk (weft and pile), metal wrapped thread; asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded
Dimensions:
Rug: H. 160 in. (406.4 cm) W. 69 5/8 in. (176.8 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1950
Accession Number:
50.190.1
 Polonaise Carpet 

Polonaise technique

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Isfahan or Kashan
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), silk (weft and pile), metal wrapped thread; asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 164 in. (416.6 cm) W. 70 1/4 in. (178.4 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1950
Accession Number:
50.190.2
 Polonaise Carpet 

Polonaise technique

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Isfahan
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), silk (weft and pile), metal-wrapped thread; asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 158 in. (401.3 cm) W. 70 in. (177.8 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1950
Accession Number:
50.190.4
 Polonaise Carpet 

The 'Doria' Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk (warp, weft, and pile), metal wrapped thread; asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 158 in. (401.3 cm) W. 69.5 in. (176.5 cm) Tube: Diam. 3 in. (7.6 cm) W. 84 in. (213.4 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1950
Accession Number:
50.190.5

This carpet is one of a pair; its counterpart is in the Carpet Museum in Tehran. The field pattern of both carpets is identical, and a balanced design is achieved when the two carpets are placed end-to-end. Both carpets are examples of the "Polonaise" type, so called for a nineteenth-century misattribution of this type of carpet to Poland rather than Iran. This group, distinguished by a silk pile and metallic brocading, is now known to have been made during and after the reign of Shah 'Abbas I in workshops in Isfahan, Yazd, and Kashan.
 Polonaise Carpet 

Polonaise technique

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk, metal thread
Dimensions:
L. 81 x W. 55 in. (205.74 x 139.7 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Byron C. Foy, 1952
Accession Number:
52.136.1
 Polonaise Carpet 

"Polonaise"

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk (warp, weft and pile), metal-wrapped thread; asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded
Dimensions:
H. 104 in. (264.2 cm) W: 58 in. (147.3 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Accession Number:
14.40.716
 Polonaise Carpet 

Rug

Date:
17th century
Culture:
Persian (Isfahan, possibly)
Medium:
Foundation: cotton; supplementary weft: metallic thread; pile: silk, Sehna knot
Dimensions:
No dimensions recorded.
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
Accession Number:
1982.60.79
 Safavid Carpet 

Floral Arabesque Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
probably Iran
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 187 in. (475 cm) W. 80 3/4 in. (205.1 cm) Wt. 41lbs. (18.6 kg) with 6" tube
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1969
Accession Number:
69.244
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Silk (warp, weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
L. 79.25 x W. 72.50 in. (201.3 x 184.2 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917
Accession Number:
17.120.143
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Wool (warp, weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Textile: L. 164 in. (416.6 cm) W. 71 in. (180.3 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Accession Number:
14.40.711
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Wool (warp, weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
L. 97.5 x W. 56.25 in. (247.65 x 142.87 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Ralph Dudley, 1953
Accession Number:
53.214
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Cotton (warp), Wool (weft and pile); symmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
L. 75 (190.5 cm) W. 50 in. (127 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1908
Accession Number:
08.173.12
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
L. 78.5 in. (199.4 cm) W. 55.5 in. (141 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917
Accession Number:
17.120.141
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
late 16th–early 17th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
L. 115.25 in. (292.7 cm) W. 77.5 in. (196.8 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922
Accession Number:
22.100.77

 Prayer rug 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran or India
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
H: 91 in. (231.1 cm) W: 40 in. (101.6 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922
Accession Number:
22.100.72

 Safavid Carpet
 

Vase Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Kirman
Medium:
Cotton (warp), silk (weft), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: H. 81 1/2 in. (207 cm) W. 56 in. (142.2 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1970
Accession Number:
1970.302.2

 Safavid Carpet fragment
 

Blue-ground Carpet Fragment with Scrolling Floral Vines

Object Name:
Fragment
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Kirman
Medium:
Cotton (warp), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: H. 54 1/8 in. (137.5 cm) W. 53 5/8 in. (136.2 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1970
Accession Number:
1970.302.5
 Safavid Carpet
 

Carpet

Date:
early 17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Kirman
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 241 in. (612.1 cm) W. 98 1/4 in. (249.6 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1959
Accession Number:
59.75
 Safavid Carpet
 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran, possibly Herat
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
L. 81.62 x W. 61.5 in. (207.3 x 156.2 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917
Accession Number:
17.120.142
 vase carpet
 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Isfahan or Kerman
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
H: 143 3/4 in. (365.1 cm) W: 86 1/2 in. (219.7 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922
Accession Number:
22.100.68

 vase carpet
 

Vase Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
late 16th –early 17th century
Geography:
Iran, Isfahan or Kirman
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), silk (weft), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: H. 325 1/2 in. (826.8 cm) W. 115 in. (292.1 cm) Tube: W. 143 1/2 in. (364.5 cm) Diam. 11 in. (27.9 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1943
Accession Number:
43.121.2

 Safavid Carpet
 

Vase-technique Carpet with Overlapping Cartouches

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Kirman or Isfahan
Medium:
Cotton (warp), silk (weft), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 189 in. (480.1 cm) W. 127 in. (322.6 cm) Tube: L. 140 in. (355.6 cm) Diam. 20 in. (50.8 cm) Wt. 75 lbs. (34 kg) (Carpet weighed with 120 lb. tube at 195 lbs.)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Horace Havemeyer, 1956
Accession Number:
56.185.1

The tightly controlled pattern of compartments is formed by overlapping cartouches, which are exceptionally varied in coloring and adorned with finely drawn palmettes growing from a vine system. In its floral forms, technical structure, and rich color scheme, this carpet is related to the so-called Vase carpets, believed to have been made in Kirman in southern Iran. Its unusual design of cartouches, however, is also found in two "Polonaise" silk carpets that have been attributed to central Iran.
 Safavid Carpet 

"Portuguese" Carpet with Maritime Scenes

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Northeastern Iran, Khurasan
Medium:
Cotton (warp, weft, and pile); wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Carpet: L. 161 3/4 in. (410.8 cm) W. 70 5/8 in. (179.4 cm) Wt. 44 lbs. (29.5) with 8" tube Left side of the Carpet: L. 161 in. (408.9 cm) Right side of the carpet: L. 158 3/4 in. (403.2 cm) Top of the Carpet: W. 68 in. (172.7 cm) Bottom of the carpet: W. 70 1/2 in. (179.1 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Fletcher Fund, 1944
Accession Number:
44.63.6
 Safavid Herat Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
mid-16th–early 17th century
Geography:
present-day Afghanistan, Herat
Medium:
Silk (warp), cotton (weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: H. 99 3/4 in. (253.4 cm) W. 70 in. (177.8 cm) W. of top edge: 68 5/8 in. (174.3 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917
Accession Number:
17.120.127
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
17th century
Geography:
Iran, probably Herat
Medium:
Silk (warp) cotton (weft), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
H. 91 1/8 in. (231.4 cm) W: 68 in. (172.7 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1910
Accession Number:
10.61.1

[ Vincent Robinson & Co. , London, in 1892]; Charles Tyson Yerkes , New York (until d. 1905; his estate 1905–10; sold to MMA)
 Herat Fragment 

Fragment

Object Name:
Fragment
Date:
ca. 1600
Geography:
present-day Afghanistan, Herat
Medium:
Silk (warp), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
H: 11 in. (27.9 cm) W: 15 3/4 in. (40 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number:
19.81.1
 Khorosan Fragment 

Khurasan Carpet Fragment

Object Name:
Fragment
Date:
second half 16th century
Geography:
Northeastern Iran, Khurasan
Medium:
Cotton (warp), silk (weft), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: L. 108 11/16 in. (276 cm) W. 31 1/8 in. (79 cm) Mount: L. 112 1/4 in. (285.1 cm) W. 34 5/8 in. (87.9 cm) D. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm) Wt. 121 lbs. (54.9 kg)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Fletcher Fund, 1991
Accession Number:
1991.154
 Safavid Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
late 16th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
H: 288 3/4 in. (733.4 cm) W: 120 1/8 in (305.1 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1959
Accession Number:
59.59
 
 

 and some post-classical pieces...

 

 

 
 Northwest Persian Garden Carpet 

Garden Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
ca. 1800
Geography:
Northwestern Iran or Kurdistan
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); symmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Rug: H. 223 in. (566.4 cm) W. 95 1/2 in. (242.6 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of William R. Pickering, 1967
Accession Number:
67.156
 Northwest Persian Garden Carpet 

Persian Garden Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
second half 18th century
Geography:
Iran, Kurdistan
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Carpet: L. of left edge: 122in. (309.9cm) L. of center edge: 121 1/2in. (308.6cm) L. of right edge: 123 1/2in. (313.7cm) W. of top: 75in. (190.5cm) W. of bottom: 73 1/4in. (186.1cm) Tube: Diam. 9 in. W. 95 1/4 in.
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922
Accession Number:
22.100.128

Representations of Persian gardens in carpets combine a bird’s-eye view of the classic four-part garden (chahar bagh) with a profile of birds and trees. The oldest and most refined example, which served as the prototype for weavers in Kurdistan, is dated 1622–32 and is currently in the Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur, India. In contrast, this carpet is highly stylized and the proportions between the main water channels and the surrounding gardens are less sophisticated.
 Northwest Persian Garden Carpet 

Fragment of a Garden Carpet

Object Name:
Fragment
Date:
18th century
Geography:
Northwestern Iran or Kurdistan
Medium:
Wool (warp, weft, and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
L. 109 in. (276.9 cm) W. 170 in. (431.8 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
Accession Number:
30.95.150
 Northwest Persian Carpet 

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
19th century
Geography:
Northwestern Iran or Caucasus
Medium:
Wool (warp, weft and pile); symmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
L. 154 in. (391.2 cm) W. 74 in. (188 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1971
Accession Number:
1971.263.7

Persian Carpet

Carpet

Object Name:
Carpet
Date:
18th century
Geography:
Iran
Medium:
Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions:
Textile: L. 209 in. (530.9 cm) W. 112 in. (289.6 cm)
Classification:
Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line:
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Accession Number:
14.40.710
  

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