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Description: Roundel with hunting scene (possibly decoration for a tent ceiling)

TitleRoundel with hunting scene (possibly decoration for a tent ceiling)

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/culturePersian

Creator roleWeaver/Fabricator

Creation date1520–1550

Object typeTextile

MaterialsSilk and metal-wrapped silk; cut-and-voided velvet, brocaded

Dimensions39 1/8 x 38 1/2 in. (99.4 x 97.8 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/66869/roundel-with-hunting-scene-possibly-decoration-for-a-tent-c

Accession number28.13

SubjectsTextile fabrics, SafavidHunting in artIslamic decoration and ornament

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Chapter 3: The Islamic World (1400–1600)

Aimée E. Froom

History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture 1400–2000

~~Prior to 1400 several major design traditions flourished and disappeared from the Islamic world. The fifteenth century saw the “golden twilight” of Islamic Spain before the Christian Reconquest of 1492. In other parts of the Islamic world, a decorative style based on floral vine scrolls, arabesques, and Chinese-inspired...

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Aimée E. Froom

PublisherBard Graduate Center

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.49-65

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00219.003

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Chapter subject tags:Islam--Spain--HistoryIslamic decorative artsIslamic decoration and ornamentMamelukes--HistoryRugs, MamelukePottery, MamelukeAlhambra (Granada, Spain)Pottery, TimuridMetal-work, TimuridIllumination of books and manuscripts, TimuridTextile fabrics, SafavidIran--History--Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736Pottery, SafavidMetal-work, SafavidTurkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918Metal-work, OttomanIslamic textile fabricsPottery, OttomanRugs, Ottoman Empire

12. The Arts in Iran under the Safavids and Zands

Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom

The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250–1800

The Safavids claimed descent from Shaykh Safi al-Din (1252–1334), who established a dervish order at Ardabil in north-west Iran. For the Safavids, see Roger Savory, Iran under the Safavids (Cambridge, 1980), and The Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 6: The Timurid and...

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Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.165-182

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00124.016

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15671&redirecttoanchor=57829

Chapter subject tags:Islamic art--IranArt, SafavidIslamic illumination of books and manuscriptsMiniature painting, PersianIslamic decoration and ornament

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