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Carpet with Field Design of Cloud Bands and Floral Palmettes on a Red Ground

Culture
Persian
Date
late 17th century
Material
Wool
associated with
Herat, Afghanistan, Asia
Collection
Islamic Art
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
13 ft. 6 in. x 70 1/4 in. (411.5 x 178.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of James F. Ballard
Rights
Public Domain
Object Number
71:1929
by 1924 - 1929
James F. Ballard [James Franklin Ballard (1851–1931)], St. Louis, MO and New York, NY [1]

1929 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by James F. Ballard [2]


Notes:
[1] This object is published in John Herron Art Institute, Catalogue of Oriental Rugs in the Collection of James F. Ballard (Indianapolis: John Herron Art Institute, 1924), pp. 18 and 21, cat. no. 10 (catalogue entry) p. 19, cat. no. 10 (halftone illustration of detail), and in City Art Museum of St. Louis, Inaugural Exhibition of a Collection of Oriental Rugs Presented to the Museum by James F. Ballard: Opening November Twenty-first (St. Louis, Mo.: City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1929), p. 10, cat. no. 4 (not illustrated). It is also published in Maurice S. Dimand, The Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs in the City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis: 1935), pl. I (halftone illustration). In the catalogue's foreword (dated June 1930), the donor, James F. Ballard, states that he gave 69 objects to the Museum in May 1929. The Deed of Gift of the James F. Ballard Collection is dated May 2, 1929.

[2] Minutes of the Administrative Board of the City Art Museum, April 22, May 7, and December 6, 1929.

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