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Velvet with Figural Imagery
mid-16th century
- Medium
- Silk, metal wrapped thread; cut and voided velvet
- Classification
- Textiles
- Dimensions
- Textile: L. 31 in. (78.7 cm) W. 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm) Mount: L. 35 5/8 in. (90.5 cm) W. 17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm) D. 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
- Culture
- Iran
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1952
- 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
