About the Artwork
Seljuk Textle Fragment
12th century
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Iranian
Islamic
Silk threads
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Textiles
Islamic Art
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
40.139
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Arthur Upham Pope)
1940-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Weibel, Adele Coulin. "A Persian Satin of the Seljuk Period," Bulletin of the DIA 20 (1940): p. 34.
2000 Years of Silk Weaving. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1944, cat. no. 53.
Weibel, Adele Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles: The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York, 1952, cat. no. 117, pp. 114-115, pl. 117.
Ackerman, Phyllis. "The Textile Arts," Survey of Persian Art, from Prehistoric Times to the Present, ed. Arthur U. Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, vol. 3, pp. 2018 and 2040 (6 vols., London and New York, 1938-9).
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Islamic, Iranian, Seljuk Textle Fragment, 12th century, silk threads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 40.139.
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