New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Fragment of Animal Carpet

Artist Unknown

CulturePersian

Date16th century

MediumWool

DimensionsOverall: 65 x 31 in. (165.1 x 78.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt

Object number59.61.12

Collections

Asian Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 107

DescriptionLarge fragment of a wool hunting carpet having a design of various sized palmettes and delicate tendrils bearing small flowers & Chinese cloud-bands in various colors on a deep red-rose ground. Amid the flowers are wild animals in pursuit of game, including lions and leopards attacking an antelope. Knotted wool. Many good portions of the original carpet assembled. Dozens of darned areas.

Published ReferencesNorfolk Ledger-Dispatch & Star, Dec. 15, 1959. Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch & Star, Jan. 19, 1959. Chrysler Museum, _Museum Bulletin_, Vol. 10, Jan. 1960, #2.