Silk Animal Carpet, Safavid Persia, 17th century
1650
A Safavid-era silk carpet depicting confronted animals, woven with an asymmetrically knotted pile - a hallmark of Persian animal-carpet iconography combining courtly hunting and mythic beast imagery.
Source: metmuseum.org
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