Brocade with Hunting Scene

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18th century · Silk, metal wrapped thread; taqueté · Islamic Art

Hunting was an enduringly popular theme in Iranian art and appears on Safavid textiles from the early sixteenth century. In this eighteenth-century example, the hunter wears a blue coat and a tall, multipronged cap with a scarf wrapped around it. The cap resembles those seen in paintings of the period of Nadir Shah Afshar (r. 1736–47), helping to date the painting to the eighteenth century.

Artist

Unknown

Date

18th century

Medium

Silk, metal wrapped thread; taqueté

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1910