{"data": {"id": 108857, "accession_number": "1926.533", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread, 1600\u20131625. Iran, Isfahan, Safavid period (1501-1722). Cotton: warp; cotton and silk: wefts; silk: pile, asymmetrical knot; gilt- and silver-metal thread: brocaded; overall: 236.2 x 143.5 cm (93 x 56 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1926.533", "current_location": null, "title": "Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread", "creation_date": "1600\u20131625", "creation_date_earliest": 1600, "creation_date_latest": 1625, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Iran, Isfahan, Safavid period (1501-1722)"], "technique": "Cotton: warp; cotton and silk: wefts; silk: pile, asymmetrical knot; gilt- and silver-metal thread: brocaded", "support_materials": [], "department": "Textiles", "collection": "T - Islamic", "type": "Carpet", "measurements": "Overall: 236.2 x 143.5 cm (93 x 56 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 2.362, "height_inch": 93, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 1.435, "width_inch": 56, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 445600, "title": "Islamic Art", "description": "<i>Islamic Art</i>. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (June 15-October 1, 1970).", "opening_date": "1970-06-15T04:00:00"}, {"id": 455362, "title": "Arts of Islam", "description": "<i>Arts of Islam</i>. Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (April 8-July 4, 1976).", "opening_date": "1976-04-08T05:00:00"}, {"id": 437861, "title": "Islamic Gallery 206 Rotation", "description": "<i>Islamic Gallery 206 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 22, 2002-March 5, 2003).", "opening_date": "2002-08-22T04:00:00"}, {"id": 380793, "title": "Islamic art rotation", "description": "<i>Islamic art rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 3, 2012-December 9, 2013).", "opening_date": "2012-12-03T05:00:00"}, {"id": 396857, "title": "Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)", "description": "<i>Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022).", "opening_date": "2021-05-21T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Exhibition of Islamic Art</em>. De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 24-March 22, 1937).", "opening_date": "1937-02-24T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Islamic Art Across the World: An Exhibition Prepared by Theodore Bowie in Partial Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Indiana University</em>. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (June 18-October 1, 1970).", "opening_date": "1970-06-18T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>The Arts of Islam</em>. The Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (April 8-July 4, 1976).", "opening_date": "1976-04-08T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "formerly in Chorherrenstift Voran, Austria", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "(Mario Veneziani, Rome, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1926", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1926-", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "16th- and 17th-century Iranian carpets with silk and metal thread were mistakenly called \"Polish,\" based on one displayed in the Polish exhibit at the Paris World Fair in 1878.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The Safavid dynasty was the greatest dynasty from Iran in the Islamic period. Similarly, woven textiles and carpets from this period are some of the best produced in the region. Royal workshops produced luxurious textiles, like this one, to furnish the royal court. Expertly woven silks were highly prized by the Iranian elite but were also produced for export to the European aristocracy.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80000690"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1926.533-royal-carpet-with-si"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Underhill, Gertrude and William M. Milliken. \"A \"Polish\" Rug in the J. H. Wade Collection.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 14, no. 4 (1927): 54-56.", "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 54-56", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137018"}, {"citation": "Hall, Helen B. 1937. \u201cExhibition of Islamic Art, San Francisco, 1937.\u201d <em>Ars Islamica</em> 4: 484\u201398.", "page_number": "fig. 21", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 217", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n241"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 217", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n241"}, {"citation": "Jones, Dalu and George Michell. <em>The Arts of Islam: Hayward Gallery, 8 April-4 July 1976</em>. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976.", "page_number": "p. 102, no. 65", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 274", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n294"}, {"citation": "Mackie, Louise W. \"Woven Treasures.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 52, no. 6 (November/December 2012): 12.", "page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned: p. 12", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2012-06/page/n11/mode/2up"}, {"citation": "Strong, Meghan E. \u201cArt of the Islamic World.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 3 (Summer 2021): 28-30.", "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 28.", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.533", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.533/1926.533_web.jpg", "width": "588", "height": "893", "filesize": "157135", "filename": "1926.533_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.533/1926.533_print.jpg", "width": "2239", "height": "3400", "filesize": "3489317", "filename": "1926.533_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.533/1926.533_full.tif", "width": "3562", "height": "5408", "filesize": "57843896", "filename": "1926.533_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.533/1926.533_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "1263", "height": "842", "filesize": "1060274"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.533/1926.533_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2267", "filesize": "3824035"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.533/1926.533_alt0_full.tif", "width": "6144", "height": "4096", "filesize": "75518548"}, "date_created": "2009-11-12T21:14:30", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.533/1926.533_alt1_web.jpg", "width": "601", "height": "900", "filesize": "488780"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.533/1926.533_alt1_print.jpg", "width": "2271", "height": "3400", "filesize": "4980531"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.533/1926.533_alt1_full.tif", "width": "2932", "height": "4389", "filesize": "38631780"}, "date_created": "2002-05-17T19:16:59", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Purchase from the J. 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