Roundel with hunting scene (possibly decoration for a tent ceiling)
1520–1550
Object PlaceIran
Medium/TechniqueSilk and metal-wrapped silk; cut-and-voided velvet, brocaded
Dimensions99.4 x 97.8 cm (39 1/8 x 38 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz
Accession number28.13
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NOTES:
[1] According to G[ertrude] T[ownsend], "A Persian Velvet," MFA Bulletin 26 (April 1928), p. 25, and Adele Coulin Weibel, Two Thousand Years of Textiles (New York, 1952), pp. 118-119, cat. no. 132, this is said to have been obtained in Persia between 1534 and 1554 by the Turkish Sultan Sulaiman the Magnificent (b. 1520 - d. 1566). It allegedly remained the property of the succeding sultans until the seige of Vienna in 1683, when it fell to Prince Sanguszko, a general in the army of John Sobieski.
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