About the Artwork
Velvet Textile Fragment
17th century
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Iranian
Islamic
Silk threads
Overall: 21 1/4 × 13 1/4 inches (54 × 33.7 cm)
Textiles
Islamic Art
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
36.40
Public Domain
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Provenance
(Dr. Hermann Burg);1936-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Weidel, Adele C. "Persian Fabrics," Bulletin of the DIA 16 (1936): 28.
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. 252.
Weidel, Adele C. 2000 Years of Textiles. New York, 1952, cat no. 141, p. 122 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Islamic, Iranian, Velvet Textile Fragment, 17th century, silk threads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 36.40.
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