Carpet Weight
Artist
Unknown
CultureIndian
Titles
- Carpet Weight
Datelate 17th–early 18th century
MediumZinc alloy; cast, engraved, and inlaid with silver (bidri ware)
Dimensions5 1/2 × 5 in. diameter (14 × 12.7 cm diameter)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Tony Bradfield and Kevin Black at "One Great Night in November, 2015"
Object number2015.410
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
113 Islamic Art Gallery
Exposé
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Department
Art of the Islamic WorldsObject Type
Provenance[Simon Ray Limited, London]; Mohammed Rezai, Houston, 2014; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
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Unknown
mid-17th century
Zinc alloy; cast, engraved, and inlaid with silver and brass (bidri ware)
2019.699
Unknown
mid-17th century
Zinc alloy; cast, engraved, and inlaid with silver and brass (bidri ware)
2019.700
Unknown
mid-17th century
Zinc alloy; cast, engraved, and inlaid with silver and brass (bidri ware)
2019.701.A,.B
Unknown
coin, Qajar Iran, 1914; bowl, Pahlavi Iran, c. 1970s
Silver; repoussé and engraved
2024.290
Unknown
late 19th–early 20th century
Wood; inlaid with ebony, ivory, and mother-of-pearl
2010.223
Unknown
19th c.
Copper alloy; with loop-in-loop chains, embossed pendants and colored beads
2024.1151
Unknown Central and South American
1200–1532 AD
Cast silver alloy, inlaid stone, shell, copper, and silver
2001.1001