Depth
At a glance
- Identifiers
- official
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
In time
Overview
A huge Safavid Persian carpet with a silk foundation, whose ownership passed in turn to the tsars and the rulers of Russia, Iran; second half of the sixteenth century, among the greatest surviving carpets. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1
People and things also explored
Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Horse colours and markings in Timurid painting· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Arabic calligraphy and its teaching
Sources
- Metropolitan Museum Open Access
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Emperor's Carpet”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/sajjadat-imbatur/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.