Figural cloth

Description

Textile fragment, silk lampas, woven with figurative scenes in garden settings and animals on different coloured grounds: West Asia, Iran, Safavid, c. 1550 - 1575

Museum reference

A.1899.139

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Figural cloth, Lampas, Fabric length

Production information

Iran, West Asia

Date

1550 - 1575

Style / Culture

Safavid period

Materials

Silk

Physical description

Silk lampas of three narrow stripes joined together; each stripe with two vertical rows of arched fields with scenes in garden settings, separated by rectangular fields with animals; there are four alternating motifs - cooking, reading poetry, music and drinking wine - executed in alternating background colours.

References

Voigt, Friederike. “’A place where eternally blossoming roses grow’: The garden in Iranian textiles”, Journal of the Oriental Rug and Textile Society, 4 (2), Summer 2021, pp. 4-9 and figs. 1-4.