Brocade with Hunting Scene

18th century

Not on view

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.

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Title: Brocade with Hunting Scene
Date: 18th century
Geography: Attributed to Iran, probably Kashan
Medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; taqueté
Dimensions: Textile: H. 54 in. (137.2 cm)
W. 29 in. (73.7 cm)
Mount: H. 59 1/4 in. (150.5 cm)
W. 34 in. (86.4 cm)
D. 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Wt. 30 lbs. (13.6 kg)
Classification: Textiles-Brocades
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1910
Object Number: 10.166
Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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