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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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Published References

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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Credit Line for Reproduction

Islamic, Iranian, Textile Fragment, ca. 1600, silk threads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 42.15.

Textile Fragment
Textile Fragment