id: 137340 accession number: 1962.263 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.263 updated: 2020-11-18 10:00:25.690000 Carpet, 1500s. Iran, Herat, 16th century. Senna knot: wool and cotton; average: 771.7 x 307.3 cm (303 13/16 x 121 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Florence and Charles Abel Oriental Rug Collection by exchange 1962.263 title: Carpet title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1500s creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1599 current location: creditline: Florence and Charles Abel Oriental Rug Collection by exchange copyright: --- culture: Iran, Herat, 16th century technique: senna knot: wool and cotton department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Carpet find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Average: 771.7 x 307.3 cm (303 13/16 x 121 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: Year in Review (1963) opening date: 1963-11-26T05:00:00 Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 26, 1963-January 5, 1964). title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T04:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). title: Art and Stories from Mughal India opening date: 2016-07-31T04:00:00 Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * --- PROVENANCE from the Cathedral of Sasamon near Burgos; (Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The Mughals, with their nomadic Central Asian roots, were constantly on the move. They were adept at transporting the trappings of their residences and bases of operation from place to place. Fine carpets and canopies demarcated places of importance, and could be rolled up and moved when the ruler was ready to consolidate his power at a new location. When they settled in stone palaces in India, the interiors were covered with carpets, lending a warmth to the spaces that cannot be felt at the sites today. This carpet is of the type that the Mughals would have acquired for their residences. Mughal paintings are filled with depictions of carpets and textiles, many ornamented, like this one, with delicate and complex palmette-dominated arabesque patterns that evoke a paradisiacal setting. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Pope, Arthur Upham, Phyllis Ackerman, and Theodore Bestermann. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. London: Oxford University Press, 1938. page number: pl. 1180 url: Wyche, Lois. "A Sixteenth-Century Persian Carpet." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 2 (1963). page number: p. 35-39 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25151935. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 217 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n241 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 217 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n241 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 274 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n294 Neils, Jenifer. "The Twain Shall Meet." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59. page number: no. 73 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159914. --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.263/1962.263_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.263/1962.263_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.263/1962.263_full.tif