About the Artwork
Textile Fragment
ca. 1600
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Iranian
Islamic
Silk threads
Overall: 9 1/2 × 4 3/4 inches (24.1 × 12.1 cm)
Textiles
Islamic Art
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
42.15
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
1942, sold at Mrs. Christian Holmes Sale (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York, USA)
1942, purchased by (Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., Inc., Paris, France)
1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Ackerman, Phyllis. "The Textile Arts," Survey of Persian Art, from Prehistoric Times to the Present, ed. Arthur U. Pope, vol. 3, 2118n, pl. 1058, no. 55, (fig. 656b) [6 vols.] London and New York, 1938-9 [specimen Moore coll., Yale University].
Exhibition of Persian Art. Exh. cat., The Iranian Institute. New York, 1940, cat. no. 64, p. 186.
Weibel, Adele Coulin. "A Riza-i-Abassi Silk," Bulletin of the DIA 22 (1942): p. 3.
Weidel, Adele C. 2000 Years of Textiles. New York, 1952, cat. no. 138, p. 121 (ill.).
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Islamic, Iranian, Textile Fragment, ca. 1600, silk threads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 42.15.
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