Fragment of Silk Taffeta with “Rose and Nightingale” Motif (Q60756657)
Label from: English (en)
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)
catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.91
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
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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