About the Artwork
Textile Fragment depicting European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean
between 1580 and 1620
(Artist) Islamic, Indian (Artist) Islamic, Iranian
Silk and silver threads
Overall: 9 × 5 3/4 inches (22.9 × 14.6 cm)
Textiles
Islamic Art
Gift of Mrs. Owen R. Skelton
47.2
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Provenance
Mrs. Owen R. Skelton
1947-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Pope, Arthur U. and Phyllis Ackerman, eds. Survey of Persian Art, from Prehistoric Times to the Present, vol. 6. London and New York, 1939, pl. 1033A.
Weibel, Adele C. "A Persian Silk Double Cloth," Bulletin of the DIA 26, no. 3 (1947): p. 60, (ill.).
Weibel, Adele C. Two Thousand Years of Textiles. New York, 1952, cat. no. 126, p. 117 (ill.).
Art of the Weaver. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. October 1954-January 1955, no. 96.
Woven Treasures of Persian Art. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. April-May 1959, no. 78.
Islamic Art Across the World. Exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum. Bloomington, June-October, 1970, no. 330.
Welch, Anthony. Shah 'Abbas & the Arts of Isfahan. Exh. cat., Asia House, Fogg Art Museum. New York and Cambridge, October 1973-February 1974, no. 19, p. 67 (ill.); pp. 38-39.
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possibly Islamic, Iranian; possibly Islamic, Indian, Textile Fragment depicting European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean, between 1580 and 1620, silk and silver threads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Owen R. Skelton, 47.2.
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