Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
The Anhalt Medallion Carpet
probably first half 16th century
- Medium
- Cotton (warp), silk (weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Classification
- Textiles-Rugs
- Dimensions
- Rug: H. 312 in. (792.5 cm) W. 165 in. (419.1 cm) Wt. on 8" tube - 184 lbs. (83.5 kg)
- Culture
- Iran
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1946
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
