About the Artwork
Buyid Fabric
11th century
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Iranian
Islamic
Silk threads
Overall: 15 7/8 × 22 3/4 inches (40.3 × 57.8 cm)
Textiles
Islamic Art
Founders Society Purchase, Edsel B. Ford Fund
31.59
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
(Arthur Upham Pope)
1931-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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International Exhibition of Persian Art. Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1931, cat. no. 39.
Schmidt, Heinrich. "Seldschukische Seidenstoffe," Belvedere, 10 (1931): p. 85.
Weibel, Adele Coulin. "Seljuk Fabrics," Bulletin XV (1935): p. 41.
Ackerman, Phyllis. "The Textile Arts," Survey of Persian Art, from Prehistoric Times to the Present, vol. 3 (1938-9): 2038 and 2080 [6 vols., London and New York].
Exhibition of Persian Art. Exh. cat., The Iranian Institute. New York, 1940, cat. no. 9, p. 475.
Weibel, Adele Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles: The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York, 1952, cat. no. 108, p. 111 (ill.).
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Islamic, Iranian, Buyid Fabric, 11th century, silk threads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Edsel B. Ford Fund, 31.59.
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