Asian Art

Textile Fragment with a Lozenge Design and Camels

12th century

Silk; compound weave

17 × 9 1/2 in. (43.2 × 24.1 cm)
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
1940.41
Geography: 
Iran
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Iranian/Persian, Islamic
Period: 
Seljuk period (1037–1194)
Classification: 
Textiles
Provenance: 

Arthur Upham Pope (1881–1969) and Phyllis Ackerman (1893–1977) Collection, 1936; Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955) New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography: 

Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, 6 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), 2037, vol. 3, fig. 659.

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