Carpet
17th century - 18th century (made)
| Place of origin |
Carpet fragment; upper left hand corner
WARP: cream, light brown wool sometimes plied together; Z2S; 17 threads per inch (67 per dm); depressed.
WEFT: light brown wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 7 knots per inch (28 per dm).
PILE: wool; 8 colours: red, yellow, light yellow, green, blue, dark purple, light purple, cream; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 60 knots per sq. inch (938 per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH: missing
END FINISH: missing
DESIGN: red ground with evidence of very large lattice formed by angular dark purple or blue leaves with a central yellow barbed line. The main design element is a red diamond; within it a multi-hooked device in yellow contains a similar, smaller one in blue. The whole has blue horned decoration at the four points and light yellow stylised tulips on the sides and lies on a cream medallion. Within the left hand portions of the lattice are two halves of a stepped concentric lozenge, an animal and S-motifs.
Main border: cream ground with leaf and wine glass pattern.
Inner border: blue ground with joined single-colour flowerheads.
Outer border: incomplete, but with evidence of a yellow ground with flowerheads like the inner border.
WARP: cream, light brown wool sometimes plied together; Z2S; 17 threads per inch (67 per dm); depressed.
WEFT: light brown wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 7 knots per inch (28 per dm).
PILE: wool; 8 colours: red, yellow, light yellow, green, blue, dark purple, light purple, cream; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 60 knots per sq. inch (938 per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH: missing
END FINISH: missing
DESIGN: red ground with evidence of very large lattice formed by angular dark purple or blue leaves with a central yellow barbed line. The main design element is a red diamond; within it a multi-hooked device in yellow contains a similar, smaller one in blue. The whole has blue horned decoration at the four points and light yellow stylised tulips on the sides and lies on a cream medallion. Within the left hand portions of the lattice are two halves of a stepped concentric lozenge, an animal and S-motifs.
Main border: cream ground with leaf and wine glass pattern.
Inner border: blue ground with joined single-colour flowerheads.
Outer border: incomplete, but with evidence of a yellow ground with flowerheads like the inner border.
Object details
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| Brief description | 1700s, Caucasian; Karadagh |
| Physical description | Carpet fragment; upper left hand corner WARP: cream, light brown wool sometimes plied together; Z2S; 17 threads per inch (67 per dm); depressed. WEFT: light brown wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 7 knots per inch (28 per dm). PILE: wool; 8 colours: red, yellow, light yellow, green, blue, dark purple, light purple, cream; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 60 knots per sq. inch (938 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: missing END FINISH: missing DESIGN: red ground with evidence of very large lattice formed by angular dark purple or blue leaves with a central yellow barbed line. The main design element is a red diamond; within it a multi-hooked device in yellow contains a similar, smaller one in blue. The whole has blue horned decoration at the four points and light yellow stylised tulips on the sides and lies on a cream medallion. Within the left hand portions of the lattice are two halves of a stepped concentric lozenge, an animal and S-motifs. Main border: cream ground with leaf and wine glass pattern. Inner border: blue ground with joined single-colour flowerheads. Outer border: incomplete, but with evidence of a yellow ground with flowerheads like the inner border. |
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| Production | Armenian. Mentioned in Hali 1980, Vol.3.,No2., p.96,98,114 "Caucasian Rugs in the V & A". by M. Franses & R Pinner (intro by Donald King) cf; Yetkin (1978) Vol.1.,illus. 34, "Carpet, transitional type, 18th c." and with illus.42 for minor borders. NB. illus. 33 for main border. Ellis (1975) illus. 17, "Sunburst carpet, Karabagh, Shusha area. 18th century" and illus. 16 "sunburst carpet, Karabagh, Shusha area? Late 18th c." NB: illus. 15 with depressed warps. Erdmann (1976) illus 105,106. "Caucasus 18th C" |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.379-1923 |
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| Record created | October 27, 2005 |
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