Garden Gathering

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Artist: Unknown artist
Date: 1640–50
Medium: Stonepaste; painted and polychrome glazed (cuerda seca technique)
Dimensions: Panel with tabs: H. 41 in. (104.1 cm) W. 74 in. (188 cm) D. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm) Wt. 400 lbs. Each tile: H. 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm) W. 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm)
Origin: Iran
Department: Islamic Art
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Plaster Cast · Gray family · #D7CBB9 · 13%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #797448 · 13%

Tarnished Aquamarine · Teal family · #5C8F95 · 13%

Lead Blue Veil · Blue family · #687898 · 11%

Flax Ground · Yellow family · #C2B399 · 9%

Herbarium Green · Green family · #6B8736 · 7%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #A8A320 · 6%

Charred Umber · Black family · #231D16 · 5%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #AE976B · 4%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #4B432D · 4%

Moss Fresco · Green family · #4F7B4C · 4%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #32385A · 3%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #896E5C · 2%

Granite Face · Gray family · #7F786E · 2%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #937B76 · 1%

Midnight Indigo · Black family · #201924 · <1%

Duck Egg Slip · Teal family · #AFD2D3 · <1%

Silverpoint Paper · Gray family · #B9C1D4 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1903

12 tags

Figures in Nature Both · 99%

The image shows multiple figures situated among trees and flowering vegetation, consistent with the cataloged subjects of gardens, men, women, flowers, and trees.
Human Figure Both · 99%

Several male and female figures are visibly represented across the garden scene, matching the cataloged subjects of men and women.
Flora Both · 99%

Flowering trees, shrubs, leaves, and numerous blossoms fill the composition, matching the cataloged subjects of flowers and trees.

Highly Ornamented Visual · 99%

The surface is extensively covered with floral, vegetal, garment, and ornamental motifs.
Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 98%

Saturated blue, turquoise, green, yellow, cream, black, and red areas create a vivid polychrome surface.
Highly Detailed Visual · 97%

Numerous small floral, vegetal, textile, figure, bird, and vessel details are rendered across the broad panel.

Glass and Ceramics Metadata · 99%

The museum classifies the work as a tile panel in Ceramics-Tiles and identifies its medium as stonepaste with painted and polychrome-glazed surfaces.
Use of Traditional Techniques Metadata · 98%

The catalog identifies the cuerda seca technique, a traditional method of painting and glazing ceramic tiles.

17th Century Art Metadata · 98%

The catalog date of 1640–50 places the work in the seventeenth century.

Ceramic Metadata · 99%

The medium and Ceramics-Tiles classification support identification of the work as ceramic.

Islamic Art and Architecture Metadata · 91%

The work is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Islamic Art department and is cataloged as an Iranian tile panel from the seventeenth century.

Unknown artist. Garden Gathering. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.