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TitlePilgrim's Banner

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureNorth African

Creator roleWeaver/Fabricator

Creation date1683

Object typeTextile

MaterialsSilk, silver foil, and gilded silver foil. Lampas with foundation of warp-faced plain weave and discontinuous supplementary wefts bound in plain weave

Dimensions12 x 7 ft (3.7 x 2.1 m)

LocationArthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/216879?position=0

Accession number1958.20

SubjectsIslamic textile fabricsDecorative arts, OttomanInscriptions, ArabicPilgrims and pilgrimages

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Chapter 9: The Islamic World (1600–1750)

Aimée E. Froom

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

~~The three major early modern empires—Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal—continued to provide the main patronage of design and decorative arts in the Islamic world during the period 1600 to 1750. The quality of both the design and the manufacture of ceramics, metalwork, textiles, carpets, lacquerwork, and other objects...

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Aimée E. Froom

PublisherBard Graduate Center

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.197-211

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00219.009

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Chapter subject tags:Iran--History--Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918Art, SafavidArt, OttomanArt, North African

17. Architecture and the Arts in Egypt and North Africa

Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom

The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250–1800

The expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian peninsula in 1492 by the Christian rulers of Aragon and Castile ended nearly eight centuries of Muslim presence there. The simultaneous discovery of the New World encouraged a reorientation of trade...

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Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.251-265

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00124.021

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Chapter subject tags:Islamic architecture--EgyptIslamic architecture--Africa, NorthIslamic art--EgyptIslamic art--Africa, NorthIslamic illumination of books and manuscripts

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