Hunting carpet
Aqa Mirak and Sultan Muhammad
(Persian)
Shah Tahmasp
(Persian, ruled 1524–1576)
about 1530
Object PlaceIran
Medium/TechniqueSilk warp and weft with silk knotted pile, with supplementary metal-wrapped patterning wefts
Dimensions480.1 x 225 cm (189 x 88 9/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Centennial Purchase Fund, John Goelet, and unrestricted textile purchase funds
Accession number66.293
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Not on viewClassificationsTextiles
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Provenance19th century, Torrigiani family, Florence; 1870s, sold by the Marchese Torrigiani to Stefano Bardini (b. 1836 - d. 1922), Florence [see note 1]; between 1877 and 1892, sold by Bardini to Adolphe de Rothschild (b. 1823 - d. 1900), Paris; by inheritance to his grand-nephew, Maurice de Rothschild (b. 1881 - d. 1957), Geneva. Between 1957 and 1966 acquired, probably from the Rothschild family, by Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York; 1966, sold by Rosenberg and Stiebel to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 13, 1966)
NOTES:
[1] Bardini offered the carpet to Wilhelm von Bode as early as 1877; this information was first provided to the MFA by Thomas J. Farnham, and the letter has been published by Valerie Niemeyer Chini, Stefano Bardini e Wilhelm Bode (Florence, 2009), p. 222, letter XV.11 (June 27, 1877); also see pp. 97-98. The carpet was in the Rothschild collection by 1892; see Wilhlem von Bode, Altpersische Knüpfteppiche (Berlin, 1892), p. 13. Bode later published Vorderasiatische Knüpfteppiche aus alter Zeit (Leipzig, 1902), noting (on p. 10) that about 25 years earlier, the Marchese Torrigiani had sold the carpet to Bardini for 150 francs, and that Bardini subsequently sold it to Rothschild for 30,000 francs.
NOTES:
[1] Bardini offered the carpet to Wilhelm von Bode as early as 1877; this information was first provided to the MFA by Thomas J. Farnham, and the letter has been published by Valerie Niemeyer Chini, Stefano Bardini e Wilhelm Bode (Florence, 2009), p. 222, letter XV.11 (June 27, 1877); also see pp. 97-98. The carpet was in the Rothschild collection by 1892; see Wilhlem von Bode, Altpersische Knüpfteppiche (Berlin, 1892), p. 13. Bode later published Vorderasiatische Knüpfteppiche aus alter Zeit (Leipzig, 1902), noting (on p. 10) that about 25 years earlier, the Marchese Torrigiani had sold the carpet to Bardini for 150 francs, and that Bardini subsequently sold it to Rothschild for 30,000 francs.
19th century
18th or early 19th century
late 16th century
17th or 18th century
17th or 18th century
17th or 18th century
about 1900
17th or 18th century
second half of 19th century
first quarter 18th century
1800–50
second quarter of 19th century