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Provenance

Peter A. B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, by 1910; inheritance from Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1910
Loan Exhibition of Early Oriental Rugs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910-1911, 48, no. 39, repro. (cat. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner).
1940
Exhibition of Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, 63, Gallery 4, no. 10, (Guide by Phyllis Ackerman).
1973
Shah 'Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, Asia House Gallery, New York; The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1974, 43 and 69, no. 28, repro. (cat. by Anthony Welch).

Bibliography

1911
Ruge, Klara. "Die Ausstellung alter orientalischer Teppiche im Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York." Kunst und Kunsthandwerk 14 (1911): 214, fig. 6.
1935
Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 129.
1938
Pope, Arthur Upham, with Phyllis Ackerman, eds. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. 9 vols. London and New York, 1938-1939: 3:2394-2395; 4:pl. 1247.
1959
Dilley, Arthur U. Oriental Rugs and Carpets. A Comprehensive Study. New York and London, 1931: pl. 14. Rev. ed. Philadelphia, 1959.
1968
Spuhler, Friedrich-Karl, "Seidene Repräsentationsteppiche der mittleren bis späten Safawidenzeit: Die sog. Polenteppiche." Ph.D. diss., Free University of Berlin, 1968: 200-201, no. 104.
1973
Shah 'Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan. Exh. cat. Asia House Gallery, New York; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1974: 19, 69, no. 28, repro. (cat. by Anthony Welch).
1997
Torchia, Robert Wilson. "Widener's Gift." Hali 92 (May 1997): 88-97, 120, fig. 3.
1998
Bower, Virginia, Josephine Hadley Knapp, Stephen Little, and Robert Wilson Torchia. Decorative Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 294-298, color repro.

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