Hunting Scene Maker: Unknown

mid–16th century

Asian Art

Not on view

A variety of hunters occupy a fantastical landscape filled with domestic animals and prey. One hunter holds a falcon; another grasps a sword, looking on while an attendant beheads a deer; four others use bows and arrows. The hunter at lower left shoots an arrow in one direction while his horse rides in another. This difficult maneuver is known as a “Parthian shot,” named for its purported inventors, the Parthians, an initially nomadic group that ruled greater Iran as the Arsacid dynasty (247 B.C.E.–224 C.E.).

Medium

Silk; tapestry weave

Dimensions

32 11/16 × 55 1/8 in. (83 × 140 cm)

Credit Line

Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore

Accession Number

1951.51.97

Geography

Kashan, Iran

Culture

Iranian/Persian, Islamic

Period

Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)

Classification

Textiles

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Provenance
Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955) New York; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.,1951
Bibliography
  • Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, 2, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institue, 1940), 17, no. 19
  • Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, 6 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), 2151–52, vol. 3; vol. 6, pl. 1092
  • The Third International Congress and Exhibition of Iranian Art and Archaeology, Leningrad, 1935, exh. cat. (St. Petersburg: Leningrad Congress, 1935), 6–11
  • Phyllis Ackerman, Tapestry: The Mirror of Civilization (New York: Oxford University Press, 1933),
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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