Carpet
1750-1850 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Carpet design: Field: Dark yellow ground with a central row of two lozenges, the lower with two pendants, the upper with one and two partial offset rows; the lozenges contain four red and yellow rosettes reduced to octagons and four dark blue leaves reduced to hexagons; the pendants containing one of both shapes; between these rows the ground is covered with white vertical stylised stems and small stars, mostly light blue.
Main border: white ground with dark blue double meander outlined in dark purple.
Inner border: red and dark purple with light purple in lower part outlined in light blue.
Outer border: dark yellow with isolated motifs of geometric and animal forms.
Main border: white ground with dark blue double meander outlined in dark purple.
Inner border: red and dark purple with light purple in lower part outlined in light blue.
Outer border: dark yellow with isolated motifs of geometric and animal forms.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Warp: light brown; Z2S; wool.
Weft: light brown (also includes pink); wool; Z2S; not depressed; 3 shoots per row; 9 knots per sq. inch (34 per dm)
Pile: wool; colours: red, dark yellow, light yellow, green, dark blue, light blue, dark purple, light purple, pink, dark brown, white. Symmetrical knots tied around two warp threads.
Side finish: Lower: missing but evidence of plainweave with 0.5cm of light purple wool and 1cm of dark brown wool weft. Upper: cut, evidence on right side of 2 rows of weft turning with red wool. |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile, Carpet; Carpet, wool knotted pile on wool foundation, possibly Hamadan, western Iran, 1750-1850 |
| Physical description | Carpet design: Field: Dark yellow ground with a central row of two lozenges, the lower with two pendants, the upper with one and two partial offset rows; the lozenges contain four red and yellow rosettes reduced to octagons and four dark blue leaves reduced to hexagons; the pendants containing one of both shapes; between these rows the ground is covered with white vertical stylised stems and small stars, mostly light blue. Main border: white ground with dark blue double meander outlined in dark purple. Inner border: red and dark purple with light purple in lower part outlined in light blue. Outer border: dark yellow with isolated motifs of geometric and animal forms. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Liberty & Co. |
| Bibliographic reference | Moya Carey, Persian Art. Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V&A, London, 2017, p.204. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 293-1878 |
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| Record created | August 13, 2007 |
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