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The Czartoryski Carpet
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Title
The Czartoryski Carpet
Description
English: Carpet, made Cotton (warp), silk (weft and pile), metal wrapped thread
فارسی: فرش اصفهاني ساخته شده از پنبه ابريشم و فلز
Date 17th century
date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Dimensions Rug: H. 191 1/2 in. (486.4 cm) W. 85 5/8 in. (217.5 cm)
Current location
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
45.106
Object history Prince Wladyslaw Czartoryski, Krakow, Poland (in 1878); [ Mr. Larcade , Paris, until 1927; sold to Rockefeller]; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. , New York (1927–1945)
Credit line Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1945
Inscriptions carpet
Notes Emblem of the Myszkowski family of the Jastrzębiec coat of arms. Possibly commissioned by Franciszek Myszkowski, castellan of Belz and marshal of Crown Tribunal in 1668 (identification of the emblem by Marcin Latka).
References

Polish carpets

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source/Photographer https://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/140007858

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