Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

Persian Carpets

Chinese Textiles

(for Italian export)

498. Wall Hanging
     Chinese, late seventeenth to early eighteenth
     century
     Silk brocade
     Length: 11 ft. 10 in. (360.5 cm);
     Width: 7 ft. 4^34 in. (225.5 cm)
     Accession number 87.DD. 37
     PROVENANCE
     Private German collection; [Rainer Zietz,
     Ltd., London].
     BIBLIOGRAPHY
     "Acquisitions/1987," GettyMusJri6 (1988),
     no. 87, p. 185, illus. One of three 499

Japanese Ceramics

499. Garniture of Three Vases
     Japanese (Arita), first half of the eighteenth
     century
     Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze blue
     decoration; polychrome enamel; gilding
     Vase .1: Height: 1 ft. Ys in. (32.1 cm);
     Diameter: 7 in. (17.8 cm); Vase .2: Height:
     ι ft. Vs in. (32.1 cm); Diameter: jY% in.
     (18 cm); Vase .3: Height: 1 ft.^34 in. (32.4 cm);
     Diameter: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
     Accession number 87.DE.26.1-.3
     PROVENANCE
     [Spink and Son, Ltd., London, 1986].
     BIBLIOGRAPHY
     "Acquisitions/1987," GettyMusJ 16 (1988),
     no. 76, p. 179, illus.

Persian Carpets

500. Carpet
     Herat or Isfahan, late sixteenth century
     Wool
     Length: 25 ft. 10 % in. (788 cm); Width:
     10 ft. 3 *4 in. (313 cm)
     Accession number 78 .DC.91

PROVENANCE

Hagop Kevorkian (sold, Sotheby's, London,

December 5,1969, lot 20); purchased at that

sale by J. Paul Getty.

EXHIBITIONS

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of

Art, Collection of Rare and Magnificent

Oriental Carpets (1966), no. 5, pi. 3.

Detail 500

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