Fragment of a Tent Panel with a Hunting Scene Maker: Unknown

mid-16th century

Asian Art

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This velvet fragment is said to have formed part of the interior of a tent used by Kara Mustafa Pasha, a seventeenth-century Turkish military commander and grand vizier during the second Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683. In Iran, velvet textiles were used for garments and furnishings and were also important diplomatic gifts and trade goods.

Medium

Cut and voided silk velvet with metal foil

Dimensions

18 1/8 × 18 1/8 in. (46 × 46 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

1937.4624

Geography

possibly Tabriz, Iran

Culture

Iranian/Persian, Islamic

Period

Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)

Classification

Textiles

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Prince Sanguszko, Poland; John Sobieski, Poland; Willy Hirsch, Berlin; purchased by Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York, 1935; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1937
Bibliography
  • Kishwar Rizvi, "Art History and the Nation: Arthur Upham Pope and the Discourse on 'Persian Art' in the Early 20th Century," Muquarnas: Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture 24 (2007), 45–65
  • David Ake Sensabaugh and Susan B. Matheson, "Ada Small Moore: Collector and Patron," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2002), 31–49
  • Kishwar Rizvi, "Islamic Art at the Yale University Art Gallery," Arts of Asia (March–April 2018), 100, fig. 11
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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