# Silk Animal Carpet

- Date: second half 16th century
- Medium: Silk (warp, weft, and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Classification: Textiles-Rugs
- Dimensions: Rug: L. 94 7/8 in. (241 cm) W. 70 1/16 in. (178 cm) Mount: L. 103 1/4 in. (262.3 cm) W. 78 in. (198.1 cm) D. 3 in. (7.6 cm) Wt. 206 lbs. (93.4 kg)
- Culture: Iran
- Credit line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/446642)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/is/web-large/DP229989.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)