Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subject Index: Carpet

Works of Art (29)

The "Seley" Carpet, late 16th century, Probably Herat (present-day Afghanistan), Wool warp, cotton weft, wool pile, asymmetrically knotted pile (1978.550)
Anhalt carpet, mid-16th century, Iran, Cotton warp, silk weft, wool pile, asymmetrically knotted (46.128)
Carpet with pictorial design, late 16th–early 17th century; Mughal, Pakistan (Lahore), Wool pile on cotton foundation (17.190.858)
Carpet, 17th century; Mughal, India, Wool (17.190.857)
Carpet, ca. 1650; Mughal, India, Cotton, wool (1970.321)
Carpet, early 16th century; Safavid, Iran, Wool pile on silk foundation (10.61.3)
Carpet, first half of 15th century, Wool (53.79)
Carpet, first half of 17th century; Ottoman, Ushak, Anatolia, Wool warp and weft, wool pile (58.63)
Carpet, late 18th century, Caucasus, Turkey, Woolen warp, weft, and pile (1970.302.10)
Carpet, Mughal, period of Shah Jahan (1628–58), India, Wool on silk foundation (14.40.725)
Dragon Carpet, 19th century, Caucasus region, Wool, cotton; plain weave with supplementary-weft embroidery (Soumak) (1971.263.5)
The Emperor's Carpet (detail), mid-16th century, Iran (probably Herat), Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile), asymmetrically knotted pile (43.121.1)
Fragments of a carpet (detail), ca. 1650; Mughal, Northern India, Kashmir or Lahore, Pashmina wool and silk; pile weave, pashmina wool pile on silk foundatio (14.40.723)
Garden carpet, ca. 1800, Iran, Cotton warp and weft, wool pile (67.156)
Kashan carpet, second half of 16th century; Safavid, Iranian; Attributed to Kashan, Iran, Pile weave, silk pile on silk foundation (14.40.721)
Khorasan-type carpet fragment, late 16th or early 17th century; Safavid, Iran, Cotton and silk (foundation), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile (2001.54)
Kilim, 1774, Ladik, Turkey, Wool, metal thread (62.156)
Medallion rug with a field of flowers, 17th century; Safavid, Probably Kirman, Iran, Wool pile on cotton, wool, and silk foundation (1970.302.2)
Medallion Ushak carpet, first half of 17th century; Ottoman, Western Anatolia, Ushak region, Wool, about 90 symmetrical knots per square inch (1984.69)
"Polonaise" carpet, early 17th century; Safavid, Iran, Silk, gold and silver thread (50.190.1,2)
Prayer carpet, late 16th century; Ottoman, Attributed to Bursa or Istanbul, Turkey, Pile weave, wool and cotton pile on silk foundation (22.100.51)
Prayer rug, 18th century; Mughal, Probably Kashmir, India, Wool pile on cotton and silk foundation (1970.302.7)
Prayer rug, late 16th–early 17th century; Ottoman, Egypt, probably Cairo, Wool (17.120.137)
Rug with confronted animals, 14th century, Turkey, Wool (warp, weft, and pile), symmetrically knotted pile (1990.61)
Rug, 18th century, Caucasus, Wool (22.100.118)
Rug, 19th century; Ottoman, Western Anatolia, Wool warp, weft, and pile; Gördes (Anatolian) knot, about 42 knots per square inch (1974.149.29)
Rug, late 16th–early 17th century; Ottoman, Egypt, probably Cairo, Wool (22.100.53)
Rug, late 18th or early 19th century, China, Sinkiang Province (East Turkestan), Silk pile on cotton foundation (22.100.28)
"Simonetti" Carpet, ca. 1500; Mamluk, Attributed to Egypt, Pile weave, wool pile on wool foundation (1970.105)

Thematic Essays (8)