Wine bearers in landscape, from a robe

Cleveland Museum of Art

Wine bearers in landscape, from a robe

Date
1525–50
Medium
Silk: lampas
Culture
Iran, Safavid period (1501–1722)
Department
Textiles
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
106698

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Iran is renowned for representations of large human figures in luxury silks during the Safavid period. Symbolic images of beauty and love characterize this signature silk in which a wine bearer appears in a landscape with cypresses and blossoming prunus trees, a pond, and a rocky hill along with animals of royal hunts. Cypresses and long-neck bottles were metaphors for elegance and male beauty while cypresses entwined by blossoming trees, paired pheasants, youth, and wine impart themes of love. The asymmetrical composition contrasts vitality and order, which contributes to concealing the repeated design inherent in patterned silks.

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Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
?–1924: Mrs. Chauncey J. [Mary Anne Italia Mitchell] Blair [1856–1940], Chicago, IL, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1924–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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