Velvet Fragment, Khusrau Sees Shirin Bathing

Cleveland Museum of Art

Velvet Fragment, Khusrau Sees Shirin Bathing

Date
1550–99
Medium
silk; velvet, cut, pile-warp substitution
Culture
Iran, Kashan, Safavid period (1501-1722)
Department
Textiles
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
124014

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These velvet fragments depict an episode from the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami (1141–1209), in which the lovers Khusrau and Shirin first see each other. A pre-Islamic king of Iran, Khusrau has fallen in love with Shirin after seeing her portrait and is traveling to meet her when he happens across her bathing in a stream. Not yet realizing that she is Shirin, Khusrau is transfixed by the woman’s beauty and covets both her and her magnificent black horse. The horse’s mane is just visible here, and she has placed her crown and tunic atop a branch.

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Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
?–1944: (Dikran G. Kelekian [1867–1951], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1944–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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