Persian Carpets

PERSIAN
Chinese Textiles
(for Italian export)
CARPETS
Persian Carpets
500. C a r p e t
Herat or Isfahan, late sixteenth century
498. Wall Hanging
Chinese, late seventeenth t o early eighteenth
Wool
century
Length: 25 ft. 10% i n . (788 cm); W i d t h :
Silk brocade
10ft.3 *4 i n . (313 cm)
Length: 11 ft. 10 i n . (360.5 c m ) ;
Accession number 78.DC.91
W i d t h : 7 ft. 4 4 i n . (225.5
3
c
m
)
PROVENANCE
Accession number 87.DD.37
Hagop Kevorkian (sold, Sotheby's, L o n d o n ,
PROVENANCE
December 5,1969, lot 20); purchased at that
Private German collection; [Rainer Zietz,
sale by J. Paul Getty.
Ltd., London].
EXHIBITIONS
N e w York, T h e M e t r o p o l i t a n Museum o f
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1987," GettyMusJ i6 (1988),
r
no. 87, p . 185, illus.
One of three
499
A r t , Collection of Rare and Magnificent
Oriental Carpets (1966), no. 5, pi. 3.
Japanese Ceramics
4 9 9 . G a r n i t u r e o f T h r e e Vases
Japanese (Arita), first half o f the eighteenth
century
Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze blue
decoration; polychrome enamel; gilding
Vase .1: Height: 1 ft. Ys i n . (32.1 cm);
Diameter: 7 i n . (17.8 cm); Vase .2: Height:
ι ft. Vs i n . (32.1 cm); Diameter: jY% i n .
(18 cm); Vase .3: Height: 1 ft. 4 i n . (32.4 cm);
3
Diameter: 7 i n . (17.8 cm)
Accession number 87.DE.26.1-.3
PROVENANCE
[Spink and Son, L t d . , L o n d o n , 1986].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1987," GettyMusJ 16 (1988),
no. 76, p . 179, illus.
498
Detail
500
287