Brocade with Hunting Scene

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Hunting was an enduringly popular theme in Iranian art and appears on Safavid textiles from the early sixteenth century. In this eighteenth-century example, the hunter wears a blue coat and a tall, multipronged cap with a scarf wrapped around it. The cap resembles those seen in paintings of the period of Nadir Shah Afshar (r. 1736–47), helping to date the painting to the eighteenth century.

Brocade with Hunting Scene, Silk, metal wrapped thread; taqueté

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Brocade with Hunting Scene, Silk, metal wrapped thread; taqueté
Brocade with Hunting Scene, Silk, metal wrapped thread; taqueté
Brocade with Hunting Scene, Silk, metal wrapped thread; taqueté
Brocade with Hunting Scene, Silk, metal wrapped thread; taqueté
Brocade with Hunting Scene, Silk, metal wrapped thread; taqueté

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