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Carpet

1775-1825 (made)
Artist/Maker
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.


Object details

Category
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Weight: 44kg
  • Length: 350.0cm
  • Maximum width: 203cm
  • Minimum width: 193.5cm
  • Weight: 21kg (Note: Weight excluding roller)
  • Width: 198cm (measured along top border)
  • Width: 200cm (measured along lower border)
  • Length: 352cm (measured along righthand border)
  • Length: 351cm (measured along lefthand border)
Weight including roller
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 createdJuly 20, 2004
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