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The third of Ian Bennett’s in-depth articles on the Oriental carpet collection at the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyon, France was published in HALI 35 (1987). The article features the non-Persian holdings of 16th and 17th century classical carpets - from Spain, Egypt,…
![Lyon, Splendours in the City of Silk. 3: The Safavid [Carpet] Masterpieces, by Ian Bennett](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2Fx7bsynha%2Fproduction%2F79b2fcd58444e078f48364e19d944efc01758232-600x1228.jpg%3Fw%3D1200%26fit%3Dmax%26auto%3Dformat&w=3840&q=75)
The second of Ian Bennett's in-depth articles on the carpet collection at the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyon, France was published in HALI 34 (1987). In he discusses the remaining holdings of 16th and 17th century classical carpets from Safavid Persia at the MHT, with…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min![Lyon, Splendours in the City of Silk. 2: Ten Safavid [Carpet] Masterpieces, by Ian Bennett](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2Fx7bsynha%2Fproduction%2F4375098c4772453c805fd5eba5687c723876ab19-551x730.jpg%3Fw%3D1200%26fit%3Dmax%26auto%3Dformat&w=3840&q=75)
In the first of his three in-depth articles on the extraordinary carpet collection at the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyon, France, published in HALI 33 (1987) Ian Bennett discusses ten 16th and 17th century classical carpets from Safavid Persia, with additional comment…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min