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Textile fragment with soldiers and female captives

Persian
Safavid Dynasty
mid-16th century
Object Place: Iran

Medium/Technique Silk and metal-wrapped silk; brocaded lampas
Dimensions 68 x 130 cm (26 3/4 x 51 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number04.1622
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ClassificationsTextiles

Description"Captives and Warriors" with rows of armed men wearing pointed turbans, leading captive women by a rope, woven with light neutral yellow, blue and green silk on a red ground. Like 03.685 (5351).
ProvenanceGift of Denman Waldo Ross, Nov. 3, 1904