Austrian Hunting Carpet

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Austrian Hunting Carpet, Persian floor covering of silk with the addition of threads wrapped in gilded silver. Thought by some to be the finest of all surviving Ṣafavid carpets, it shows mounted hunters and their prey surrounding a relatively small central medallion, and the unique border includes a series of winged male figures. It is extremely finely woven, at 790 asymmetical knots per square inch, and it was almost certainly made for the court of Shah Ṭahmāsp I during the second quarter of the 16th century. It has been suggested that the carpet was woven in Kāshān because of that ...(100 of 151 words)