Textile panel depicting scenes from the Khamsa of Nizami, Iran, sixteenth to seventeenth century. Silk, metal-wrapped thread; double-weave, 25 × 14 3/8 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1946 (46.156.7). © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, New York.

Textile panel depicting scenes from the Khamsa of Nizami, Iran, sixteenth to seventeenth century. Silk, metal-wrapped thread; double-weave, 25 × 14 3/8 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1946 (46.156.7). © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, New York.

Textile panel depicting scenes from the Khamsa of Nizami, Iran, sixteenth to seventeenth century. Silk, metal-wrapped thread; double-weave, 25 × 14 3/8 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1946 (46.156.7). © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, New York.

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