Carpet
1800-1875 (made)
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Carpet design:
Field: Red ground with large white lozenge medallion with elaborate pendants. Within the medallion is a dark green ground, the central horizontal bar bearing 3 yellow blossoms with red above and below the central yellow. The two long pendant stems end in a stem and flower-filled shield shape. Immediately above on the stem is a white rosette above which is a wide white decorated bar that curves into a pair of facing ducks' heads and above that a narrow white bar bearing a rosette and white flowers. In each corner is a partial repeat of the central medallion and pendants.
Borders:
inner - dark blue ground with red and white regular meander on which a single red blossom alternates with a pair of blue ones.
middle - white ground with a dark blue meander expanding to form a red diamond-shaped leaf and bearing alternately a blue or pink blossom, each with a pair of triangular leaves.
outer - wide, undecorated light brown.
Field: Red ground with large white lozenge medallion with elaborate pendants. Within the medallion is a dark green ground, the central horizontal bar bearing 3 yellow blossoms with red above and below the central yellow. The two long pendant stems end in a stem and flower-filled shield shape. Immediately above on the stem is a white rosette above which is a wide white decorated bar that curves into a pair of facing ducks' heads and above that a narrow white bar bearing a rosette and white flowers. In each corner is a partial repeat of the central medallion and pendants.
Borders:
inner - dark blue ground with red and white regular meander on which a single red blossom alternates with a pair of blue ones.
middle - white ground with a dark blue meander expanding to form a red diamond-shaped leaf and bearing alternately a blue or pink blossom, each with a pair of triangular leaves.
outer - wide, undecorated light brown.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Knotted pile. Cotton warps, one wool weft, wool pile, symmetrical knot.
Pile: knotted, wool; 8 colours: red, yellow, dark green, dark blue, blue, pink, light brown, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 warp threads.
Warp: white; cotton; Z5S; not depressed; 13 knots per inch (50 per dm).
Weft: white; wool; Z2S; 1 shoot after each row of knots; 9 knots per in (35 per dm).
Side finish: 1 cord oversewn with light brown wool.
End finish:
Lower - warp loops lightly twined around a weft cord; 2.5cm plainweave with white cotton; one pass of of weft twining in blue and red wool.
Upper - 2cm of plainweave with paired weft threads of white cotton; 2cm of warp twining with v-shaped gap in centre. |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile, Carpet; Carpet, wool pile on wool-cotton foundation, medallion design on red ground, Sarab or Hamadan, Iran, 1870-75 |
| Physical description | Carpet design: Field: Red ground with large white lozenge medallion with elaborate pendants. Within the medallion is a dark green ground, the central horizontal bar bearing 3 yellow blossoms with red above and below the central yellow. The two long pendant stems end in a stem and flower-filled shield shape. Immediately above on the stem is a white rosette above which is a wide white decorated bar that curves into a pair of facing ducks' heads and above that a narrow white bar bearing a rosette and white flowers. In each corner is a partial repeat of the central medallion and pendants. Borders: inner - dark blue ground with red and white regular meander on which a single red blossom alternates with a pair of blue ones. middle - white ground with a dark blue meander expanding to form a red diamond-shaped leaf and bearing alternately a blue or pink blossom, each with a pair of triangular leaves. outer - wide, undecorated light brown. |
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| Object history | Purchased in Istanbul in 1897 from Mrs Alice Whitaker, daughter and heir of William Henry Wrench (1836-96). Wrench was British consul in the city when he died, and he had formed a significant collection of Ottoman and Iranian objects while in the consular service. For images of how Wrench displayed his collection in his home in the Pera (Beyoğlu) district of the city, see V&A: PH.331 to 334-1892. |
| Bibliographic reference | J. Housego, "Carpets", in R.W. Ferrier (ed.), <i>The Arts of Persia</i> (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989), pp.118-156: fig.37. |
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| Accession number | 363-1897 |
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| Record created | November 7, 2003 |
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