Carpet
1800-1875 (made)
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Carpet Design:
Field: dark blue ground with 6.5 surviving bands of 3 composite blossoms. The first full band from the bottom has a large ragged yellow blossom in the centre with a floral palmette within; to either side an indented lozenge-shaped blossom and within a red rosette lying diagonally and from its 2 points extend pairs of pink lilies. The second band has at the centre a dark green blossom and within a red rosette and outside a white frill. On either side lies a larger yellow indented blossom enclosing a large dark green rosette. These 2 bands are repeated upwards and create 3 rows of large floral emblems of similar shapes and outlines but with different colours. The whole field is heavily filled with blossoms. Along both sides are diagonal items with outward facing buds and also with animal and tiny floral motifs which appear in other places on the field.
Main border: red ground with a white angular meander linking elaborate blossoms that are basically either rosettes or palmettes. From the palmettes extend a pair of green or blue lilies.On the white stem between the blossoms is a pronounced arrowhead and beside it is a large bud, usually red.
Inner and Outer border: white ground with double meander in red and dark brown linking small flowers in these colours.
Missing about one quarter of the top section.
Field: dark blue ground with 6.5 surviving bands of 3 composite blossoms. The first full band from the bottom has a large ragged yellow blossom in the centre with a floral palmette within; to either side an indented lozenge-shaped blossom and within a red rosette lying diagonally and from its 2 points extend pairs of pink lilies. The second band has at the centre a dark green blossom and within a red rosette and outside a white frill. On either side lies a larger yellow indented blossom enclosing a large dark green rosette. These 2 bands are repeated upwards and create 3 rows of large floral emblems of similar shapes and outlines but with different colours. The whole field is heavily filled with blossoms. Along both sides are diagonal items with outward facing buds and also with animal and tiny floral motifs which appear in other places on the field.
Main border: red ground with a white angular meander linking elaborate blossoms that are basically either rosettes or palmettes. From the palmettes extend a pair of green or blue lilies.On the white stem between the blossoms is a pronounced arrowhead and beside it is a large bud, usually red.
Inner and Outer border: white ground with double meander in red and dark brown linking small flowers in these colours.
Missing about one quarter of the top section.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Warp: white/ light brown; wool; Z2S; not depressed; 15 knots per sq. inch (61 per dm).
Weft: white; 2-spun; unplied; 2 threads per shoot; 1 shoot after each row of knots; 9 rows of knots per sq. inch (35 per dm).
Knotted Pile: wool; red, yellow, dark green, green, light green, dark blue, blue, light blue, pink, light pink, dark brown, white (12 colours); symmetrical; 2 knots tied around warp thread.
Side finish: one cord oversewn with white wool.
End finish: lower: missing; upper: missing - cut. |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile, Carpet; Carpet, wool knotted pile on wool foundation, 'Harshang' design of outsize lotus flowers and leaves on dark blue ground, possibly Kurdistan, Iran, 1800-1875 |
| Physical description | Carpet Design: Field: dark blue ground with 6.5 surviving bands of 3 composite blossoms. The first full band from the bottom has a large ragged yellow blossom in the centre with a floral palmette within; to either side an indented lozenge-shaped blossom and within a red rosette lying diagonally and from its 2 points extend pairs of pink lilies. The second band has at the centre a dark green blossom and within a red rosette and outside a white frill. On either side lies a larger yellow indented blossom enclosing a large dark green rosette. These 2 bands are repeated upwards and create 3 rows of large floral emblems of similar shapes and outlines but with different colours. The whole field is heavily filled with blossoms. Along both sides are diagonal items with outward facing buds and also with animal and tiny floral motifs which appear in other places on the field. Main border: red ground with a white angular meander linking elaborate blossoms that are basically either rosettes or palmettes. From the palmettes extend a pair of green or blue lilies.On the white stem between the blossoms is a pronounced arrowhead and beside it is a large bud, usually red. Inner and Outer border: white ground with double meander in red and dark brown linking small flowers in these colours. Missing about one quarter of the top section. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Vincent J. Robinson & Co., 34 Wigmore Street, London. At the time of purchase, museum curator Caspar Purdon Clarke recommended this carpet highly: "probably of Kurdestan make, either Kermanshah or Gerrows [Garrus] about 1790 to 1820, very good". |
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| Accession number | 388-1880 |
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| Record created | November 4, 2003 |
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