The Emperor's Carpet
سجادة الإمبراطور
The Emperor's Carpet; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 43.121.1.
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A huge Safavid Persian carpet with a silk foundation, whose ownership passed in turn to the tsars and the rulers of Russia, Iran; second half of the sixteenth century, among the greatest surviving carpets. 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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