Fragment of Silk Taffeta with “Rose and Nightingale” Motif (Q60756657)

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artist: no value
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
material used: silk (Q37681) gold thread (Q29586582)
fabrication method: plain weave (Q1153946) brocading (Q52800022)
instance of: textile artwork (Q22075301) brocade (Q649022) textile (Q28823)

catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.91

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description: A luxurious textile like this would have been used for courtly robes or coats in Safavid Iran. The bird-and-flower motif is known as gul-u-bulbul in Persian, meaning “rose and nightingale.” The motif

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