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Collection Online as of December 22, 2025

Velvet fragment from a palace curtain

1700s

Iran

taquete silk
Overall: 190.1 x 122.6 cm (74 13/16 x 48 1/4 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.668
Location: Not on view
  • (D. G. Kelekian).
  • Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 389, fig. 9.52
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