Fragment of a textile decorated with an executioner... - Lot 74 - Ader

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Fragment of a textile decorated with an executioner... - Lot 74 - Ader
Fragment of a textile decorated with an executioner and prisoner, probably Safavid Iran, early 17th century Silk weaving with repeated decoration of a prisoner with naked torso, chained feet and held in leash by his executioner, on a background of flowered branches decorated with tchi clouds. Sight size : 12,7 x 21 cm Wear and stains. Framed. Provenance: Cardo Gallery label 5813, Avenue Kléber, Passy 08-45. The iconography of the warrior with a captive on this textile was particularly fashionable in the Safavid period. It is found on a Safavid lampas from the former Georges Marteau collection and preserved in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv. 20496) or on the lampas with Georgian captives n°52.20.12 in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. On each of these textiles, the executioner is wearing a turban with a stick according to the fashion of the time of Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-76). This fragment may have belonged to a silk textile held in the Edmund de Unger Collection, attributed to Yazd, ca. 1600, and presented in the catalog of its exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin in 2007-2008 under number 64. Another fragment, probably of the same textile, is in the Deutsches Textilmuseum in Krefeld (no. 12715). Biography: A collector's fortune, Islamic art from the Collection of Edmund de Unger, 27 November 2007-17 February 2008, Pergamonmuseum, Museumsinsel, Berlin, 2007, pp. 86-87. A piece of Fabric with Men leading Captives, probably Safavid Iran, early 17th century
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