Textile Fragment depicting European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean

between 1580 and 1620

Islamic, Indian, Artist Islamic, Iranian, Artist

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Title Textile Fragment depicting European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean

Artwork Date between 1580 and 1620

Makers (Artist) Islamic, Indian (Artist) Islamic, Iranian

Medium Silk and silver threads

Dimensions Overall: 9 × 5 3/4 inches (22.9 × 14.6 cm)

Classification Textiles

Department Islamic Art

Credit Gift of Mrs. Owen R. Skelton

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 47.2

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Mrs. Owen R. Skelton

1947-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Pope, Arthur U. and Phyllis Ackerman, eds. Survey of Persian Art, from Prehistoric Times to the Present, vol. 6. London and New York, 1939, pl. 1033A.

Weibel, Adele C. "A Persian Silk Double Cloth," Bulletin of the DIA 26, no. 3 (1947): p. 60, (ill.).

Weibel, Adele C. Two Thousand Years of Textiles. New York, 1952, cat. no. 126, p. 117 (ill.).

Art of the Weaver. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. October 1954-January 1955, no. 96.

Woven Treasures of Persian Art. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. April-May 1959, no. 78.

Islamic Art Across the World. Exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum. Bloomington, June-October, 1970, no. 330.

Welch, Anthony. Shah 'Abbas & the Arts of Isfahan. Exh. cat., Asia House, Fogg Art Museum. New York and Cambridge, October 1973-February 1974, no. 19, p. 67 (ill.); pp. 38-39.

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possibly Islamic, Iranian; possibly Islamic, Indian, Textile Fragment depicting European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean, between 1580 and 1620, silk and silver threads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Owen R. Skelton, 47.2.