Unknown
Prayer Panel with Mihrab
1900
Scroll
Unknown
Prayer Panel with Mihrab
1900
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 36 x 22 in. (91.4 x 55.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Martha Custis Peter, Baltimore, MD.
Object Number
2008.36
Printed Indian or Persian textile, possibly a prayer mat of block-printed cotton with a design with large mihrab in center with three borders. The mihrab is printed in red, ochre, blue and black with all-over print of small boteh. It is flanked by columns with scrolling vines and large boteh. Third border with scrolling foliate forms. Bound in blue-turquoise and different printed, possibly European cotton on back printed in tans, reds, blues, ochres with thin stripes and slightly wider stripes with large roses. Trellis pattern on ground.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2008; Martha Custis Peter, Baltimore, MD by gift; Agnes Mott Peter.
Maker
Unknown
