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Carpet with a Lattice Design

Carpet with a Lattice Design, 20th century

  • Islamic, Iranian
  • Islamic, Indian

Silk pile on cotton warps and cotton and silk wefts

  • Overall: 129 1/2 × 133 inches (3 m 28.9 cm × 3 m 37.8 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford

42.130

Department

Islamic Art

Details

Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford

1942-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Weibel, Adele Coulin. "A Persian Silk Rug," Bulletin of the DIA 22, no. 7 (April 1943).

possibly Islamic, Iranian; possibly Islamic, Indian, Carpet with a Lattice Design, 20th century, silk pile on cotton warps and cotton and silk wefts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, 42.130.

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