RugNotes: Thursday, April 22, 2004: "Thursday, April 22, 2004
Poldi Pezzoli Carpet and Tahmasps Shahnama
Artdaily.com - The First Art Newspaper on the Net: "This is the case of an important and large Safavid knotted-pile carpet, measuring 682 x 335 cm, decorated with hunting scenes which, dated 1542-43, is currently part of the holdings of the Museum Poldi Pezzoli, where it eventually arrived in 1923. Nobody knows how the carpet reached Italy, though official records attest its presence in 1870 amongst the furnishings of the Quirinale Palace in Rome, which, until 20 years earlier, had been used by the Popes as their residence. ""
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