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Asian Art
Public domain

Quilted and embroidered cotton

18th century

Cotton, embroidery

34 1/4 × 50 1/2 in. (87 × 128.27 cm)
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
1937.5213
Culture: 
Iranian, Islamic
Period: 
18th century
Classification: 
Textiles
Provenance: 

Arthur Upham Pope (1881–1969) and Phyllis Ackerman (1893–1977) Collection, 1936 ; Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955) New York #140; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography: 

Arthur Upham Pope and Dr. Phyllis Ackerman, Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, 6 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), 2160, vol. 3.

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