Fragment of Silk Taffeta with “Rose and Nightingale” Motif
https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.91
A luxurious textile like this would have been used for courtly robes or coats in Safavid Iran. The bird-and-flower motif is known as gul-u-bulbul in Persian, meaning “rose and nightingale.” The motif references the poetic image of a nightingale plaintively singing to an indiff...
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