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The Emperor's Carpet
second half 16th century
- Medium
- Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Classification
- Textiles-Rugs
- Dimensions
- Rug: L. 299 in. (759.5 cm) W. 133 1/2 in. (339.1 cm) Wt. on a 10" tube: 144 lbs. (65.3 kg)
- Culture
- Iran
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1943
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
