Carpet
1880-1890 (made)
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Design:
Field: light red with 11.5 bands of 1.5 blossom motifs (offset), becoming simpler in complexity as work progressed. Enclosed by trellis of green, serrated leaves edged in dark blue, linked by a smaller blossom in yellow, green with red centre, edged in dark blue. Main blossoms purple, yellow, green, and red.
Main border: white ground; large stylised angular (starred) blossoms in red and purple, or red and blue (mainly) with radiating 4 stylised leaves.
Guard stripes: inner and outer border - blue ground changing to dark blue about half-way with floral meander in light blue and light red and yellow stem.
Field: light red with 11.5 bands of 1.5 blossom motifs (offset), becoming simpler in complexity as work progressed. Enclosed by trellis of green, serrated leaves edged in dark blue, linked by a smaller blossom in yellow, green with red centre, edged in dark blue. Main blossoms purple, yellow, green, and red.
Main border: white ground; large stylised angular (starred) blossoms in red and purple, or red and blue (mainly) with radiating 4 stylised leaves.
Guard stripes: inner and outer border - blue ground changing to dark blue about half-way with floral meander in light blue and light red and yellow stem.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Warp: light brown; wool; Z3S; not depressed; 13 threads per inch (45 per dm).
Weft: light red in lower 15.5 in., thereafter white; wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 8 rows of knots per inch (38 per dm).
Pile: wool; 11 colours: red, dark red, light red, yellow, green, light green, blue, light blue, dark blue, purple, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 warp threads.
Side finish: 3 cords overcast with red wool.
End finish: lower - end missing; upper - incomplete, 1 in. plain weave, red wool and brown/white wool with 1 row warp twining. |
| Brief description | Carpet, wool knotted pile on wool foundation, trellis pattern on red ground, Iran, 1880-90 |
| Physical description | Design: Field: light red with 11.5 bands of 1.5 blossom motifs (offset), becoming simpler in complexity as work progressed. Enclosed by trellis of green, serrated leaves edged in dark blue, linked by a smaller blossom in yellow, green with red centre, edged in dark blue. Main blossoms purple, yellow, green, and red. Main border: white ground; large stylised angular (starred) blossoms in red and purple, or red and blue (mainly) with radiating 4 stylised leaves. Guard stripes: inner and outer border - blue ground changing to dark blue about half-way with floral meander in light blue and light red and yellow stem. |
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| Object history | Purchased (as a Tabriz carpet) from Mirza Ali, Istanbul. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 331-1892 |
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| Record created | January 28, 2008 |
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