Carpet
1775-1825 (made)
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Place of origin |
Design: Field: dark blue ground with large scale Herati design with dark red and brown blossoms within a dark red diamond and green leaves. The large curving leaves are in 3 colours: light blue, orange and yellow.
Main border: red ground with a naturalistic floral meander with red stems and blue blossoms and diagonal sprays of white flowers.
Inner and outer borders: yellow ground with double floral meanders on dark blue stems.
Main border: red ground with a naturalistic floral meander with red stems and blue blossoms and diagonal sprays of white flowers.
Inner and outer borders: yellow ground with double floral meanders on dark blue stems.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Warp: white cotton; Z3S; 24-26 threads per inch (120 per dm).
Weft: blue cotton; z-spun, unplied, 2 parallel threads per shoot; 2 or 3 shoots after each row of knots; 12 knots per inch (50 per dm).
Pile: wool; 10 colours: dark red, red, orange, yellow, green, dark blue, blue, light blue, brown, white; asymmetrical knot, open to the left and tied around 2 warps; average of 150 knots to the sq. inch (3000 per sq. dm).
Side finish: one cord oversewn with red wool.
End finish: lower: incomplete but with 1" (2 cms) of plain weave with blue woollen weft. Upper: incomplete and as above with red woollen weft.
Repair in centre. |
Brief description | Middle East, Textile, Carpet; Carpet, wool knotted pile on cotton foundation, 'Herati' or 'mahi' design of round flowers and curling leaves set on trellis against blue ground, with floral scrollwork border, possibly Qa'in, Khurasan province, Iran, 1775-1825 |
Physical description | Design: Field: dark blue ground with large scale Herati design with dark red and brown blossoms within a dark red diamond and green leaves. The large curving leaves are in 3 colours: light blue, orange and yellow. Main border: red ground with a naturalistic floral meander with red stems and blue blossoms and diagonal sprays of white flowers. Inner and outer borders: yellow ground with double floral meanders on dark blue stems. |
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Bibliographic reference | Moya Carey, Persian Art. Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V&A, London, 2017, p.216. |
Collection | |
Accession number | 300-1884 |
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Record created | July 20, 2004 |
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