Panel

Textiles

1600/28

Iran (Persia)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Panel
Place: Iran (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1600–1628
Medium: Silk, velvet weave
Dimensions: 153 × 72.4 cm (60 1/4 × 28 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of an Anonymous Donor
Reference Number: 1924.1001
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American Art Galleries, Illustrated Catalogue of Spanish, Spanish Oriental, Chinese, Persian, Oushak Rugs and Carpets of the XVI, XVII and XVIII Centuries: Important Ispahan Carpet, a Shah Abbas Velvet Panel of the XVI Century and Fourteen Beautiful Hispano-Moresque Lustered Plaques; From the Galleries of Addison Mizner, Palm Beach, Ohan S. Berberyan, New York, sales cat., American Art Galleries, Nov. 8, 1924, no. 132.
“Rare Panels to be Sold: Rugs, Carpets and Plaques in Offering at American Galleries,” New York Times, Nov. 3, 1924: 10 (not ill.).
“Old Persian Panel Sold for $15,000: of Cloth-of-Gold Velvet, Made for Shah Abba Sixteenth Century” New York Times Nov. 9, 1924: 20 (not ill.)
R. M. Riefstahl, “A Persian Figural Velvet of the Shah Abbas Period,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 19, 1 (Jan. 1925): 1–5 (ill.).
Nancy Andrews Reath and Eleanor B. Sachs, Persian Textiles and the Technique from the Sixth to the Eighteenth Centuries Including a System for General Textile Classification (Yale University Press published for Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1937), 130-131, example 89, plate 89 (ill.).
Anthony Welch, Shah ‘Abbas & the Arts of Isfahan, exh. cat. (New York: The Asia Society; Greenwich, Conn.: distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1973), 45, 67, cat 21 (ill.).

Ohan S. Berberyan (1882-1970), New York, by Nov. 1924, sold, American Art Galleries, New York, to Parrish-Watson, Co., New York, Nov. 8, 1924 [American Art Galleries, sales cat., 1924, no. 132]; sold to private collection, Lake Forest, IL, from Nov. 15, 1924 [incoming permanent receipt R1925, Nov. 15, 1924; copy in curatorial object file, Textiles Department]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Handbook of Oriental Art, 1933 Fig. 62, p. 51

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