Rug, 15th century

  • Islamic, Spanish

Wool pile on a wool foundation

  • Overall: 139 × 87 inches (3 m 53.1 cm × 221 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

43.75

possibly ca. 1477, Convent of Santa Isabel de los Reyes (Toledo, Spain). (Cosmos Art, Inc.)

1943-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Weibel, A. C. "Weavings from Moorish Spain," Bulletin of the DIA 23 (October 1943: p. 3 (ill.). Spanish Textile and Castles in Spain. Exh. cat., The Textile Museum. Washington, D.C., October 12, 1963 - January 15, 1964, cat. no. 2. Mackie, L. W. "Two Remarkable Fifteenth Century Carpets from Spain," Textile Museum Journal, vol. 4, no. 4 (1977): pp. 15-32 [as c.1416/32]. Ferrer, J. S. Alfombras Antiguas de la Provincia de Albacete. Instituto de Estudios Albacentenses, C. S. I. C. Confederacion Espanola de Centros de Estudios Locales, Albacete, 1986, p. 302, 303, pl. XI.

Islamic, Spanish, Rug, 15th century, wool pile on a wool foundation. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 43.75.