Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 12. (Budapest, 1970)

IPARMŰVÉSZETI MÚZEUM — MUSÉE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS - Egyed, Edit: On a Textile from the Safavid Period

Fig. 6. Combined textile, 16th century, Yazd (Ackermann Collection; Pope, op. cit. p. 1032) textile, one of them in the Metropolitan Museum, the other in the Gulbenkian collection

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^. On both the emphasis is put on the fights of animal pairs placed in the central fields, but here again the lines of the movements of the animals are different from the design of our textile. The explantation of the further necessitates the enumeration of negative examples. So far the representations on textiles have helped us to a rather wide ranging location that is the place of production should be looked for in the territory of Iran. As the dating of carpets studied till now and usable as approximate analogies is to the 16th century, so the production of our textile can also be dated to the 16th century. The manifold investigations have already shown that in the age of the Safavid arts developed greatly. As regards the plant ornamentations, in the beginning they are strongly stylized, and later on they become more and more naturalistic. In the large museums and collections of the world there is a great number of figured velvets, brocades representing the masterpieces of Persian decorative art and showing the great influence of the Chinese ornamentation. 23 Pope: op. cit. p. ' i