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Border fragment of the "second Ardabil Carpet"
Border fragment of the "second Ardabil Carpet"

Border fragment of the "second Ardabil Carpet"

about 1539–40
Object PlaceIran (Persia)
Medium/TechniqueWool and silk: silk warp, silk weft, wool knotted pile
Dimensions30 x 68 cm (11 13/16 x 26 3/4 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number03.701
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
Provenance1903, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1953 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1903, gift of Dr. Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 16, 1903)
Medallion
mid-16th century
late 15th to early 16th century
Pattern
early 19th century
Group shot:  62.1126 (above), 62.1127 (below)
First half 19th century
Restricted: For reference only
late 17th or early 18th century
Hunting carpet
Aqa Mirak and Sultan Muhammad
about 1530
Border fragment of a silk carpet
probably third quarter of the 16th century
Fragment of a lattice-and-blossom carpet
second half of the 17th century