Carpet
1575-1600 (made)
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Carpet, Ottoman Court Carpet, hand knotted woollen pile on woollen warp and weft, second half 16th century
Warp: light blue wool; S3Z; 23 threads per inch/ 91 per dm
Weft: very light red wool; S-spun, unplied, 3 parallel threads per shoot; two shoots after each row of knots; 13 knots per inch/ 50 per dm
Pile: wool; three colours: red, green and blue; asymmetrical knot tied around two warp threads and open to the left; 150 knots per sq.in/2275 per sq.dm
Side Finish: missing
End Finish: missing
Design: Field: red ground with one central and two halves of a device on curvingfloral stems that fill the field. The device of a diamond has a palmette at each point within an open spray of saz leaves on the horizontal and a closed spray of leaves on the vertical. On the vertical a rosette separates each device.
Main Border: red ground with well-drawn clusters of green/blue flowers - carnations, rosebuds, tulips and hyacinths alternating with a shield-like palemtte which forms the diagonal of each corner.
Inner and Outer borders: blue.green ground with small red rosettes separated by a pair of tiny red triangles.
Date catalogued: 05/05/1999
Warp: light blue wool; S3Z; 23 threads per inch/ 91 per dm
Weft: very light red wool; S-spun, unplied, 3 parallel threads per shoot; two shoots after each row of knots; 13 knots per inch/ 50 per dm
Pile: wool; three colours: red, green and blue; asymmetrical knot tied around two warp threads and open to the left; 150 knots per sq.in/2275 per sq.dm
Side Finish: missing
End Finish: missing
Design: Field: red ground with one central and two halves of a device on curvingfloral stems that fill the field. The device of a diamond has a palmette at each point within an open spray of saz leaves on the horizontal and a closed spray of leaves on the vertical. On the vertical a rosette separates each device.
Main Border: red ground with well-drawn clusters of green/blue flowers - carnations, rosebuds, tulips and hyacinths alternating with a shield-like palemtte which forms the diagonal of each corner.
Inner and Outer borders: blue.green ground with small red rosettes separated by a pair of tiny red triangles.
Date catalogued: 05/05/1999
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Materials and techniques | hand knotted woollen pile on woollen warp and weft |
Brief description | Middle East, Carpet; Ottoman court carpet |
Physical description | Carpet, Ottoman Court Carpet, hand knotted woollen pile on woollen warp and weft, second half 16th century Warp: light blue wool; S3Z; 23 threads per inch/ 91 per dm Weft: very light red wool; S-spun, unplied, 3 parallel threads per shoot; two shoots after each row of knots; 13 knots per inch/ 50 per dm Pile: wool; three colours: red, green and blue; asymmetrical knot tied around two warp threads and open to the left; 150 knots per sq.in/2275 per sq.dm Side Finish: missing End Finish: missing Design: Field: red ground with one central and two halves of a device on curvingfloral stems that fill the field. The device of a diamond has a palmette at each point within an open spray of saz leaves on the horizontal and a closed spray of leaves on the vertical. On the vertical a rosette separates each device. Main Border: red ground with well-drawn clusters of green/blue flowers - carnations, rosebuds, tulips and hyacinths alternating with a shield-like palemtte which forms the diagonal of each corner. Inner and Outer borders: blue.green ground with small red rosettes separated by a pair of tiny red triangles. Date catalogued: 05/05/1999 |
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Accession number | 458-1884 |
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Record created | September 3, 2002 |
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