A SAFAVID SILK AND METAL THREAD BROCADE PANEL
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A SAFAVID SILK AND METAL THREAD BROCADE PANEL

IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A SAFAVID SILK AND METAL THREAD BROCADE PANEL
IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Silk enriched with metal thread, the gold ground woven with offset rows of rose bushes, each with a single blue flower and home to a perching bird and crouching hares below
9 3/8 x 16¾in. (23.7 x 42.6cm.)
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A number of related motifs of birds in rosebushes are known in Safavid silks of the 17th century. The rosebushes are always asymmetrical and almost always issue from a mound. Typically they are naturalistic in all but the scale where the floral spray is often enormous when compared to the diminutive animal - be it hare or deer - that looks up. Ackerman attributes the group to Isfahan and suggests that many of these patterns with combinations of floral and animal motifs in fact are drawn from a famous ode with sentimental or mystic associations (Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, Vol. III, London, 1939, pp.2135-36). For another textile with a similar bird in rosebush design, see lot 236.

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