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Persian · Late 19th Century
Kashan Tree of Life
The Tree of Life, rising from earth toward heaven, is among the oldest devotional images in Persian weaving. Here it is drawn with unusual delicacy against a soft beige ground, the branches picked out in deep red. A quiet, contemplative composition from Kashan.
Tree of Life rising through a beige field alive with birds, deer and lions — a garden-of-paradise pictorial drawn with unusual delicacy.
- Size
- 6′5″ × 4′4″
- Style
- Persian — Kashan
- Era
- Late 19th Century
- Pile
- Wool on cotton
- Foundation
- Cotton
- Weave
- Hand-knotted
- Dyes
- Vegetable dye
- Condition
- Very good
Some photographs are styled visualisations; the piece itself is photographed unretouched.