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Country of Origin: Isfahan
Persia
JBOC Comments: This piece appears
to be related to the Keshishian_16th
C Safavid Lampas Fragment. Very possinly a
fragment fdfrom the same Lampas
Auction Catalogue Description:
Arts of the Islamic World
SALE L06220 LOT 125
SESSION 1 | 05 Apr 06 10:30 AM.
London, New Bond Street
A FINE AND RARE SAFAVID SILK TEXTILE FRAGMENT,
PERSIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY
30,000—35,000 GBP
MEASUREMENTS
measurements note
56.2 by 53cm. max.
DESCRIPTION
woven with cream, blue, green, pink and brown
silk threads on a metal thread ground, with a
repeat pattern of a youth and attendant
surrounded by a blossoming tree and composite
palmettes and saz leaves
CATALOGUE NOTE
A sixteenth-century lampas silk fragment in the
Kelekian collection, although with a yellow
ground, possesses an almost identical design to
the current lot (Pope and Ackerman 1938, vol.vi,
pl. 1013A). A lampas silk of similar date with a
black ground in the Victoria and Albert Museum
and a coat of the same cloth in the Whitworth Art
Gallery also display youths being offered dishes
of pomegranates by kneeling attendants surrounded
by composite palmettes and saz leaves (see
Ferrier 1989, p.165, no.23, vol. vi and Pope and
Ackerman 1938, pl.1015A).
A radiocarbon test at the Institute of Geological
and Nuclear Sciences in Lower Hutt, New Zealand,
produced a radiocarbon age of 305 years +/-45
years, which corresponds to a calendar interval
of AD 1457 to AD 1665.
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