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with the few specimens that have survived in an almost NOTES
intact state of preservation. This rug was probably 1. Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 14.40.715, illustrated in
woven at the royal manufactory, or karkhana, that Shah Walker 1994, fig. 2,105.
Abbas I established at Isfahan. Most of the authorities 2. No. 7944, from the collection of Henriette Tower Wurts,
have dated it to the first half of the seventeenth centu- illustrated in Spuhler 1968,192, no. 81.
ry, although Ellis argued that its "uncertainties in 3. No. 49 (formerly in the Yerkes and Rockefeller collections),
design" indicate that it was made about thirty years illustrated in Dimand 1975, 208, fig. 8. A close counterpart
later than the more incisively drawn and detailed large formerly owned by J. Paul Getty is illustrated in Carpets from
Widener Polonaise. 7 the /. Paul Getty Collection (Sotheby's, New York, 8 December
RWT 1990, lot 3).
4. No. 120:29, illustrated in Dimand 1935, pi. 2.
5. No. WC-6, illustrated in Erdmann 1942, 397.
6. No. 25.096, illustrated in Bennett i987b, fig. xin, 44.
7. Ellis ms.

REFERENCES
1910 Valentiner: 49, repro.
1935 Widener: 129.
1968 Spuhler: 200.

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