Carpet
1850-1900 (made)
| Place of origin |
Warp: white silk; Z2S; 28-32 threads per inch (110-122 per dm); depressed.
Weft: white cotton, possibly dyed and faded; Z4S; 2 shoots after each row of knots, but occasionally more to even out the weaving; 12-17 knots per inch (50-70 per dm), the number very variable.
Pile: silk; 10 colours: yellow, green, dark blue, blue, light blue, very light blue (faded), dark pink, pink, light brown, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 168-272 knots per sq. inch (2750-4270 per sq. dm.).
Side finish: one cord oversewn with dark blue silk.
End finish: Lower: one row of weft twining in red and yellow, then narrow band of plain weave with white cotton and 3 rows of offset knots after a row of braiding. The fringe is 15 cm. long. Upper: as lower without the weft twining and with 4 rows of knots.
Design: Field: white ground with central white medallion created by a ring of mottled blue rays, each terminating in a small pink carnation. In the centre is a light blue rosette in a diamond on a blue vertical line which connects through 2 yellow and dark blue pendants with a small part of 2 similar medallions. The central medallion is filled with stylised flowers on blue vines. On either side of the medallion (along the sides of the field) is a mottled pink pillar with 2 horizontal mottled pink floral springs extending towards the centre.
Main border: dark pink ground with light blue double meander and large dark blue composite blossoms and smaller dark blue rosettes.
Inner and outer borders: white ground with elongated dark blue floral meander with pink and blue blossoms.
Innermost border: blue ground with light brown blossoms separated by a dark pink X-motif.
Outermost border: undecorated dark blue.
Weft: white cotton, possibly dyed and faded; Z4S; 2 shoots after each row of knots, but occasionally more to even out the weaving; 12-17 knots per inch (50-70 per dm), the number very variable.
Pile: silk; 10 colours: yellow, green, dark blue, blue, light blue, very light blue (faded), dark pink, pink, light brown, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 168-272 knots per sq. inch (2750-4270 per sq. dm.).
Side finish: one cord oversewn with dark blue silk.
End finish: Lower: one row of weft twining in red and yellow, then narrow band of plain weave with white cotton and 3 rows of offset knots after a row of braiding. The fringe is 15 cm. long. Upper: as lower without the weft twining and with 4 rows of knots.
Design: Field: white ground with central white medallion created by a ring of mottled blue rays, each terminating in a small pink carnation. In the centre is a light blue rosette in a diamond on a blue vertical line which connects through 2 yellow and dark blue pendants with a small part of 2 similar medallions. The central medallion is filled with stylised flowers on blue vines. On either side of the medallion (along the sides of the field) is a mottled pink pillar with 2 horizontal mottled pink floral springs extending towards the centre.
Main border: dark pink ground with light blue double meander and large dark blue composite blossoms and smaller dark blue rosettes.
Inner and outer borders: white ground with elongated dark blue floral meander with pink and blue blossoms.
Innermost border: blue ground with light brown blossoms separated by a dark pink X-motif.
Outermost border: undecorated dark blue.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | weaving, cotton and silk |
| Brief description | Persian |
| Physical description | Warp: white silk; Z2S; 28-32 threads per inch (110-122 per dm); depressed. Weft: white cotton, possibly dyed and faded; Z4S; 2 shoots after each row of knots, but occasionally more to even out the weaving; 12-17 knots per inch (50-70 per dm), the number very variable. Pile: silk; 10 colours: yellow, green, dark blue, blue, light blue, very light blue (faded), dark pink, pink, light brown, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 168-272 knots per sq. inch (2750-4270 per sq. dm.). Side finish: one cord oversewn with dark blue silk. End finish: Lower: one row of weft twining in red and yellow, then narrow band of plain weave with white cotton and 3 rows of offset knots after a row of braiding. The fringe is 15 cm. long. Upper: as lower without the weft twining and with 4 rows of knots. Design: Field: white ground with central white medallion created by a ring of mottled blue rays, each terminating in a small pink carnation. In the centre is a light blue rosette in a diamond on a blue vertical line which connects through 2 yellow and dark blue pendants with a small part of 2 similar medallions. The central medallion is filled with stylised flowers on blue vines. On either side of the medallion (along the sides of the field) is a mottled pink pillar with 2 horizontal mottled pink floral springs extending towards the centre. Main border: dark pink ground with light blue double meander and large dark blue composite blossoms and smaller dark blue rosettes. Inner and outer borders: white ground with elongated dark blue floral meander with pink and blue blossoms. Innermost border: blue ground with light brown blossoms separated by a dark pink X-motif. Outermost border: undecorated dark blue. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Messrs. John Barker & Co. Ltd., High Street, Kensington, London. |
| Production | Possibly Tabriz |
| Bibliographic reference | Related carpet:
A. C. Edwards, The Persian Carpet (London: Duckworth 1975): pl. 53. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 433-1895 |
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| Record created | August 25, 2005 |
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