Publication Date
In the year 946 AH / 1539 - 40 AD
Publication Place
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Subject
Wool wool knotted on a plain silk woven basis / in one color and the knots are asymmetrical
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
718.8 × 400 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
53.50.2
Record ID
object;EPM;us;Mus21;25;ar
Library Location
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Date
In the year 946 AH / 1539 - 40 AD
Notes
This wonderful carpet was made as one of a matching pair, and its counterpart is preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. According to their identical signatures, the two carpets were the work of Maqsood Kashan, and he may have been the one who prepared the designs and supervised the project. They were royal carpets and were probably commissioned by Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-76), as they may have been for the shrine of his grandfather in Ardabil. Just above the dated signature of each rug is an inscription, a Persian stanza written by the famous fourteenth-century Persian streetwise Hafez: “I have no refuge in this world but the threshold / My head has no place to rest but this gate.”
Sample Text
"Ardabil Carpet" within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus21;25;ar
