Carpet
1500-1600 (made)
Place of origin |
Wool carpet
Design: the pattern in the centre is directional and was woven upside down.
Field: dark red ground filled with offset bands of small green and yellow tiger stripes alternating with bands of single white dots. In the centre is a scalloped blue medallion with white pendant trefoil at either end. As displayed: the central elaborate light yellow trefoil is within a floral wreath of 6 white rosettes with leaves. Each corner of the field has a 1/4 of a dark blue medallion within a serrated white edge, each point ending in a white cross. Within the medallion is part of a complex red and yellow design.
Main Border: dark red ground with a double floral meander, breaking in the centre of each border. Yellow stems with blue and yellow composite rosettes and dark red, yellow, green, blue and black composite blossoms.
Inner and Outer borders: white ground with dark red floral meander bearing yellow and dark red rosettes.
Warp: yellow wool, S4Z, depressed. 24-26 per inch; 98-104 per dm.
Weft: dark red; wool, S-spun, unplied, 3 threads per shoot, 2 shoots after each row of knots; 11-12 rows of knots per inch (43 per dm.)
Pile: wool, dark red, yellow, light yellow, green, dark blue, blue, black, (corroded) white. Asymmetrical, open to the left, tied round 2 warp threads. 132-152 knots per sq. in (2107-2236 per sq. dm).
Side finish: missing (some repair in upper half of right handside)
End finish: missing
(analysed through glass)
Design: the pattern in the centre is directional and was woven upside down.
Field: dark red ground filled with offset bands of small green and yellow tiger stripes alternating with bands of single white dots. In the centre is a scalloped blue medallion with white pendant trefoil at either end. As displayed: the central elaborate light yellow trefoil is within a floral wreath of 6 white rosettes with leaves. Each corner of the field has a 1/4 of a dark blue medallion within a serrated white edge, each point ending in a white cross. Within the medallion is part of a complex red and yellow design.
Main Border: dark red ground with a double floral meander, breaking in the centre of each border. Yellow stems with blue and yellow composite rosettes and dark red, yellow, green, blue and black composite blossoms.
Inner and Outer borders: white ground with dark red floral meander bearing yellow and dark red rosettes.
Warp: yellow wool, S4Z, depressed. 24-26 per inch; 98-104 per dm.
Weft: dark red; wool, S-spun, unplied, 3 threads per shoot, 2 shoots after each row of knots; 11-12 rows of knots per inch (43 per dm.)
Pile: wool, dark red, yellow, light yellow, green, dark blue, blue, black, (corroded) white. Asymmetrical, open to the left, tied round 2 warp threads. 132-152 knots per sq. in (2107-2236 per sq. dm).
Side finish: missing (some repair in upper half of right handside)
End finish: missing
(analysed through glass)
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Brief description | Carpet, wool knotted pile on wool foundation, medallion design with cintamani field on red ground, Ottoman Turkey, 1500-1600 |
Physical description | Wool carpet Design: the pattern in the centre is directional and was woven upside down. Field: dark red ground filled with offset bands of small green and yellow tiger stripes alternating with bands of single white dots. In the centre is a scalloped blue medallion with white pendant trefoil at either end. As displayed: the central elaborate light yellow trefoil is within a floral wreath of 6 white rosettes with leaves. Each corner of the field has a 1/4 of a dark blue medallion within a serrated white edge, each point ending in a white cross. Within the medallion is part of a complex red and yellow design. Main Border: dark red ground with a double floral meander, breaking in the centre of each border. Yellow stems with blue and yellow composite rosettes and dark red, yellow, green, blue and black composite blossoms. Inner and Outer borders: white ground with dark red floral meander bearing yellow and dark red rosettes. Warp: yellow wool, S4Z, depressed. 24-26 per inch; 98-104 per dm. Weft: dark red; wool, S-spun, unplied, 3 threads per shoot, 2 shoots after each row of knots; 11-12 rows of knots per inch (43 per dm.) Pile: wool, dark red, yellow, light yellow, green, dark blue, blue, black, (corroded) white. Asymmetrical, open to the left, tied round 2 warp threads. 132-152 knots per sq. in (2107-2236 per sq. dm). Side finish: missing (some repair in upper half of right handside) End finish: missing (analysed through glass) |
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Production | Referred to in: "Siebenhundert Jagre Orienttapich" by K. Erdmann, pub. Bussesche Verlagshanellung GmbH, 1966, plate 249, pp. 202, 206. mentioned & illustrated x 2 Hali 1981, vol. 4.no.1. "E. Mediterranean Carpets in the V & A." by R. Pinner and M. Franses (intro by Donald King), analysis by Tattersall. Pp.36, 45, 46, 49, 50, 38 Mentioned in "Oriental Carpets in the Philadelphia Museum of Art" by Charles Grant Ellis, pub. The Herbet Press, 1988; note 12, pp. 41-2 CFs: (all to one carpet in the Metropolitan, NY). Yetkin (1981) plate 75, "Ottoman Court Carpet, 17th c", NB. p.126 "The general appearance of the rug is very close to the book bindings of the period". McMullan (1972) illus. XXII (best illus. available). NB. comment on pp.34 Dimand (1973), fig. 194, "Medallion rug, court manufactory, probably Istanbul, second half XVII century". |
Bibliographic reference | Donald King, Robert Pinner and Michael Franses, "East Mediterranean Carpets in the Victoria & Albert Museum", HALI, 4/1 (1981) pp.36-52. |
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Accession number | 491-1899 |
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Record created | June 15, 2004 |
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