Polonaise' Carpet, 17th century, Attributed to Iran, probably Isfahan, Cotton (warp and weft), silk (weft and pile), metal

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Polonaise' Carpet, 17th century, Attributed to Iran, probably Isfahan, Cotton (warp and weft), silk (weft and pile), metal-wrapped thread; asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded, Rug: L. 158 in. ( cm), Textiles-Rugs, When, in 1878, a carpet similar to this one was exhibited in Paris, it was assumed that the coats of arms woven into the rug were Polish and that the rug was made in Poland. It was later recognized that this group, distinguished by a silk pile and metallic brocading, was Persian, made during and after the reign of Shah 'Abbas I, beginning around the end of the sixteenth or early seventeenth century

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