Carpet
17th century (made)
| Place of origin |
Woolen carpet with design of 'birds'.
Warp: white wool; Z2S; 16-18 per inch (64-72 per dm), (less at right and more at left).
Weft: white wool; Z2S; 2 shoots, 11-12 knots per inch (44-48 per dm).
Pile: wool; 9 colours: red, dark yellow, yellow, green, blue, light blue, pink, black, white. 88-108 knots per sq. inch (1408-1728 per dm.); symmetrical knot around 2 threads.
Sides: missing
Ends: missing
Design: white ground. In this carpet there are 2 rows of horizontal 'birds' and one central row of vertical 'birds' with blossoms and stylised sprays of flowers, predominantly red. Areas of embroidered restoration down the centre.
Main border: wide, white ground with dark yellow and red cloudbands overlying an angular stylized meander.
Outer border: white ground with angular yellow meander with small birds and leaves.
(Analysed through the glass 10.3.99)
Warp: white wool; Z2S; 16-18 per inch (64-72 per dm), (less at right and more at left).
Weft: white wool; Z2S; 2 shoots, 11-12 knots per inch (44-48 per dm).
Pile: wool; 9 colours: red, dark yellow, yellow, green, blue, light blue, pink, black, white. 88-108 knots per sq. inch (1408-1728 per dm.); symmetrical knot around 2 threads.
Sides: missing
Ends: missing
Design: white ground. In this carpet there are 2 rows of horizontal 'birds' and one central row of vertical 'birds' with blossoms and stylised sprays of flowers, predominantly red. Areas of embroidered restoration down the centre.
Main border: wide, white ground with dark yellow and red cloudbands overlying an angular stylized meander.
Outer border: white ground with angular yellow meander with small birds and leaves.
(Analysed through the glass 10.3.99)
Object details
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| Brief description | Middle East, Textile; Carpet of 'bird' design, W Anatolia (Ushak), 16th or 17th century.; 1700s, Turkish |
| Physical description | Woolen carpet with design of 'birds'. Warp: white wool; Z2S; 16-18 per inch (64-72 per dm), (less at right and more at left). Weft: white wool; Z2S; 2 shoots, 11-12 knots per inch (44-48 per dm). Pile: wool; 9 colours: red, dark yellow, yellow, green, blue, light blue, pink, black, white. 88-108 knots per sq. inch (1408-1728 per dm.); symmetrical knot around 2 threads. Sides: missing Ends: missing Design: white ground. In this carpet there are 2 rows of horizontal 'birds' and one central row of vertical 'birds' with blossoms and stylised sprays of flowers, predominantly red. Areas of embroidered restoration down the centre. Main border: wide, white ground with dark yellow and red cloudbands overlying an angular stylized meander. Outer border: white ground with angular yellow meander with small birds and leaves. (Analysed through the glass 10.3.99) |
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| Gallery label | Old label:
When carpets were first being grouped and studied in the latter part of the 19th century, this type of 16th/17th century Turkish carpet was called a Bird Ushak; 'Bird' because the main motif in the field can sometimes be seen as a humming bird and 'Ushak' after a carpet-weaving area in western Anatolia. It is unusual for a carpet to have the same colour field and main border but this arrangement is typical of this group.
There is an area of re-knotting down the centre of the carpet, indicating that it must have been folded along that line and stored that way for a long period. |
| Production | c: King "The Eastern Carpet.. 1983", plate 44, p. 76 "White ground bird carpet. Anatolia, late 16th or early 17th century" Batain (1994): illus. 24 "Bird" rug, Usak, late 16th century"; also illus. 26 and 28 for no inner border. Ellis (1988), illus. 17 "Bird rug European Turkey (Wallachia, Romania)?, seventeenth century". Also illus. 16 and 18. Yetkin (1981) plate 65, "White ground "bird rug", (Usak) 17th c." |
| Bibliographic reference | Mentioned and illustrated X 2, 'Hali' 1984 Vol. 6., No. 4. "Turkish Carpets in the V & A.", by Frances & R. Pinner, analyses by S. Jarman. pp354, 359, 368, 373, 380?, 381
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | 457-1884 |
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| Record created | June 15, 2004 |
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