Enciclopedia Cattolica

Plate CXXIII · Carpet

Vol. XI (1953) · full-page plate
Above left: CARPET with central medallion with hunting scenes among tangles of stems with leaves and flowers from north-western Persia (1522) - Milan, Museo Poldi-Pezzoli. Above right: PRAYER CARPET (17th cent.) - Smyrna. Below left: CARPET in silk and silver, of the so-called Shah Abbas I type (late 16th cent.) - Venice, basilica of S. Marco. Below right: CARPET with plant decoration, of the so-called Herat type (17th cent.). Detail - Florence, Museo civico.
(da M. e V. Viale, Arazzi e tappeti antichi, Torino 1952, tav. 120)
Plate CXXIII
(da R. Neugebauer - Y. Grendi, Handbuch der Orientalischen Teppichkunde, Lipsia 1923, tav. 2)
Plate CXXIII
(fot. Alinari)
Plate CXXIII
(fot. Alinari)
Above left: CARPET with central medallion with hunting scenes among tangles of stems with leaves and flowers from north-western Persia (1522) - Milan, Museo Poldi-Pezzoli. Above right: PRAYER CARPET (17th cent.) - Smyrna. Below left: CARPET in silk and silver, of the so-called Shah Abbas I type (late 16th cent.) - Venice, basilica of S. Marco. Below right: CARPET with plant decoration, of the so-called Herat type (17th cent.). Detail - Florence, Museo civico.

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