Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

Colors in this work

Artist: Ghiyath
Date: second half 16th century
Medium: Silk, cut and voided velvet with continuous floats of flat metal thread
Dimensions: Textile: L. 25 3/4 in. (65.4 cm) W. 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm) Mount: L. 30 in. (76.2 cm) W. 18 1/2 in. (47 cm)
Origin: Iran
Department: Islamic Art
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Olive Ground · Yellow family · #947B51 · 39%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #503B20 · 15%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #C2B2A0 · 11%

Parchment Ochre · Yellow family · #B5A287 · 9%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #6D5738 · 8%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #AB9368 · 5%

Press Black · Black family · #201409 · 5%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #7C6440 · 5%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #998A79 · <1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #403730 · <1%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #8E845C · <1%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #9F7D3B · <1%

Granite Face · Gray family · #776E66 · <1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #413432 · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #0A0507 · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #876A60 · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #000200 · <1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #34372C · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1952

9 tags

Patterns Visual · 99%

Repeated floral rosettes, blossoms, leaves, and branching ornamental forms are distributed throughout the textile field.
Allover Composition Visual · 96%

Motifs recur across the vertically oriented field rather than forming a single isolated scene or central image.
Highly Ornamented Visual · 90%

The surface is richly decorated with repeated floral ornament, contrasting dark outlines, and small subsidiary motifs.
Metallic Both · 96%

The catalog specifies continuous floats of flat metal thread, and the image shows pale reflective highlights integrated into the patterned textile surface.

16th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog dates the textile to the second half of the sixteenth century.

Iranian Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog records the place of origin as Iran and identifies the maker as Iranian, from Yazd.

Metal Metadata · 93%

The catalog identifies flat metal thread as part of the textile’s medium.

Textile Arts Both · 99%

The museum classifies the object as a textile fragment, and the image clearly shows a woven textile surface mounted in a rectangular format.
Use of Fabric Both · 99%

The catalog identifies silk as the primary material, while the image visibly presents a woven fabric surface.

Ghiyath. Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.