Carpet
1870-1880 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Carpet, two-plane lattice on red ground.
Design:
Field: very similar to 151-1884; red ground ib which are 4.5 bands of 2 elaborate rosettes with a star-like flower in the centre and 2 halves at the edges. The rosettes change their colours from band to band while the stars can be in bands of white, green, and dark blue. Each band is framed above and below by pairs of white decorated serrated leaves that join to form the horizontal. Lying across these bands is 1 row and 2 half-rows of 2 and a partial third outlined in dark blue which are formed by 2 shield shapes joined by 2 vertical bars enclosing the white star (as above). These give a vertical element to the design. Each of the many framed areas has a network of small flowers on angular stems. Just below the central green star there is a pair of inward-facing yellow birds with one at either end (at top of shield).
Main border: dark green ground with large elaborate rosettes divided by stiffly angled serrated leaves which, along the sides, have one half lying horizontally to the left or to the right. Around the rosettes are small animals, rosettes, and floral motifs. The small rosettes invade the guard stripes. Along the lower border and the field section of the top, the leaves are paired to frame the blue rosettes.
Inner and outer border: yellow ground with a bold linked-chain design alternating in dark blue, dark green, and green: a barred reverse C-shape with a ring inserted to link each pair. Inside each reverse C is a simplified floral sprig in red
Design:
Field: very similar to 151-1884; red ground ib which are 4.5 bands of 2 elaborate rosettes with a star-like flower in the centre and 2 halves at the edges. The rosettes change their colours from band to band while the stars can be in bands of white, green, and dark blue. Each band is framed above and below by pairs of white decorated serrated leaves that join to form the horizontal. Lying across these bands is 1 row and 2 half-rows of 2 and a partial third outlined in dark blue which are formed by 2 shield shapes joined by 2 vertical bars enclosing the white star (as above). These give a vertical element to the design. Each of the many framed areas has a network of small flowers on angular stems. Just below the central green star there is a pair of inward-facing yellow birds with one at either end (at top of shield).
Main border: dark green ground with large elaborate rosettes divided by stiffly angled serrated leaves which, along the sides, have one half lying horizontally to the left or to the right. Around the rosettes are small animals, rosettes, and floral motifs. The small rosettes invade the guard stripes. Along the lower border and the field section of the top, the leaves are paired to frame the blue rosettes.
Inner and outer border: yellow ground with a bold linked-chain design alternating in dark blue, dark green, and green: a barred reverse C-shape with a ring inserted to link each pair. Inside each reverse C is a simplified floral sprig in red
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Wool knotted pile on wool foundation, symmetrical knot.
Warp: white wool; Z2S; not depressed; 15 threads per inch (55 per dm).
Weft: very light pink wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 8 rows of knots per inch (29 per dm).
Pile: wool; 10 colours: red, light red, yellow, dark green, green, blue, light blue, dark brown, brown, white; symmetrical knot tied round 2 warp threads.
Side finish: one cord oversewn with blue wool.
End finish:
Lower: incomplete warp loops around a weft cable and then 2cm plain weave with red woollen weft.
Upper: missing. |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile, Carpet; Carpet, wool knotted pile on wool foundation, packed design of angular two-plane lattice and white flowers on red ground, possibly Joshagan, Iran, c.1870-1880 |
| Physical description | Carpet, two-plane lattice on red ground. Design: Field: very similar to 151-1884; red ground ib which are 4.5 bands of 2 elaborate rosettes with a star-like flower in the centre and 2 halves at the edges. The rosettes change their colours from band to band while the stars can be in bands of white, green, and dark blue. Each band is framed above and below by pairs of white decorated serrated leaves that join to form the horizontal. Lying across these bands is 1 row and 2 half-rows of 2 and a partial third outlined in dark blue which are formed by 2 shield shapes joined by 2 vertical bars enclosing the white star (as above). These give a vertical element to the design. Each of the many framed areas has a network of small flowers on angular stems. Just below the central green star there is a pair of inward-facing yellow birds with one at either end (at top of shield). Main border: dark green ground with large elaborate rosettes divided by stiffly angled serrated leaves which, along the sides, have one half lying horizontally to the left or to the right. Around the rosettes are small animals, rosettes, and floral motifs. The small rosettes invade the guard stripes. Along the lower border and the field section of the top, the leaves are paired to frame the blue rosettes. Inner and outer border: yellow ground with a bold linked-chain design alternating in dark blue, dark green, and green: a barred reverse C-shape with a ring inserted to link each pair. Inside each reverse C is a simplified floral sprig in red |
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| Object history | Purchased for the Museum by Robert Murdoch Smith, from Sidney Churchill in Tehran, this was acquired as a batch of fourteen carpets and carpet fragments and ten specimens of qalamkari printed cotton. Murdoch Smith wrote: "Among the articles are a number of carpets and pieces of carpets of the 17th century and earlier date (some as early as the end of the 15th century or beginning of the 16th century) which will, I think, form a valuable addition to the Museum collection. Some of the best specimens - small pieces, not whole carpets - were got from the rufuqir or darners of worn and torn carpets in the Teheran bazaar." |
| Production | Possibly either Feraghan or Herat. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 154-1884 |
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| Record created | September 10, 2007 |
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