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Unknown Maker, Persian

Tomb Cover

Maker

Unknown Maker, Persian

Culture

Persian

Title

Tomb Cover

Period

Safavid

Year

early 1700s

Medium

  • Silk plain weave with supplemental wefts and triple inner warps

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Silk plain weave with supplemental wefts and triple inner warps

Materials

silk

Geography

Place Made: Persia

Dimensions

Length: 335.3 cm (132 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

First: O Remembrance of the Lion of Repeated Attack! O Husayn!; second: O God! O Muhammad! O'Ali!; third: Lo! We have given thee a signal victory

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Bequest of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

55.536

Type

  • Textiles

Publications

  • Journal

Glimpses of Grandeur: Courtly Arts of the Later Islamic Empires

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 15: Green

RISD Museum’s Manual 15 Celebrates Green

New life is always shown to us through mokingpu, the color green-the light green stems of rabbitbrush, one of the few colors seen the winter; the tender green shoots of new corn that emerge in the spring against the backdrop of the dry brown earth. Green offers hope. Green represents life.

-Susan Sekaquaptewa

A welcome splash of color after a long winter, the RISD Museum’s fifteenth issue of Manual is awash in shades of green, celebrating the color's myriad associations with nature and growth, environmentalism and sustainable practices, newness and hope (as well as poison and currency) and delving into the histories of specific pigments and processes. Manual 15 opens with an introductory essay by Hopi grower Susan Sekaquaptewa, who details the soft hues of the flora of Northern Arizona. “You appreciate plants more when you develop a relationship with them,” she explains.

This issue of Manual is supported in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional generous support is provided by the RISD Museum Associates and Sotheby’s.

  • Books

A World of Costume and Textiles: A Handbook of the Collection

  • Books

Selected Works

Exhibition History

Asian Textiles and the Grammar of Ornament
Design in the Victorian Age
Nov 16, 2007 – Aug 03, 2008
Glimpses of Grandeur
Courtly Arts of the Later Islamic Empires
Sep 24, 1999 – Dec 26, 1999
Surface Versus Structure
Islamic Decorative Arts
Mar 22, 1985 – Aug 15, 1985
Islamic Art
A Survey
Oct 07, 1982 – Apr 24, 1983

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Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Persian
Tomb Cover, early 1700s
Silk plain weave with supplemental wefts and triple inner warps
Length: 335.3 cm (132 inches)
Bequest of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich 55.536

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