Persian textile panel with peacocks and animals

An image of Textiles/Panel. Unknown maker, Persia, Isfahan. Confronting peacocks, alternating lines of animals, enclosed by curving floral branches. Border of repeat flowers on a trailing stem. Polychrome with embroidery on cotton drawn thread ground. Length, whole, 48.5 in, width, whole, 35.25 in, circa 1600 to circa 1699. Persian.

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Textiles/Panel. Unknown maker, Persia, Isfahan. Confronting peacocks, alternating lines of animals, enclosed by curving floral branches. Border of repeat flowers on a trailing stem. Polychrome with embroidery on cotton drawn thread ground. Length, whole, 48.5 in, width, whole, 35.25 in, circa 1600 to circa 1699. Persian.

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Accession Number: T.5-1961
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 270.95kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2017:07:18 14:56:24

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17th Century animal animals birds blue border branches cotton embroidered embroidery Esfahan Fitz_AA floral flowers Hispahan Isfahan Ispahan panel peacock peacock feather peacock tail peacocks Persian polychrome Sepahan textile

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