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Sash with Small Male Figures
Iranian17th-18th century
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
This long sash would have been folded lengthwide and wrapped many times around its wearer's outer robe. The decoration of the narrow bands running along the top, bottom, and middle includes small male figures in the style of contemporary miniature painting.
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Details
- Title: Sash with Small Male Figures
- Creator Nationality: Iranian
- Date Created: 17th-18th century
- Physical Dimensions: w59.4 x h459 cm
- Type: sashes
- Rights: Acquired by Henry Walters
- External Link: The Walters Art Museum
- Medium: gold and silver brocade
- Provenance: Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Place of Origin: India
- ExhibitionHistory: The Arts of Persia. 1949
- Artist: Iranian
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