Silk Animal Carpet

سجادة الحرير بالحيوانات

Silk Animal Carpet; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 14.40.721.

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A Persian silk carpet with animal scenes, Iran; second half of the sixteenth century, one of the rare silk carpets of Kashan. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1

People and things also explored

Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Kubachi ware· Mahmal

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  1. Metropolitan Museum Open Access
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islam.museum contributors. “Silk Animal Carpet”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/sajjada-hayawan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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