Carpet
1875-1900 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Carpet Design:
Field: dark blue ground with 12+ bands of 7 or 7 1/2 botehs on stems, overlaid with spotted 'S' motifs, otherwise densely packed with floral motifs.
Main border: red ground with meander linking a cypress tree with a group of three botehs.
Guard stripes: Inner and Outer: light green ground with small red floral motifs.
Field: dark blue ground with 12+ bands of 7 or 7 1/2 botehs on stems, overlaid with spotted 'S' motifs, otherwise densely packed with floral motifs.
Main border: red ground with meander linking a cypress tree with a group of three botehs.
Guard stripes: Inner and Outer: light green ground with small red floral motifs.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Wool knotted pile on cotton foundation, asymmetric knot.
PILE: knotted wool (white cotton?), 10 colours: red, light red, orange, yellow, light green, dark blue, blue, light blue, purple, white. Asymmetrical, open to the left, (occasionally jufti knotting as others). Tied round 2 warp threads.
WARP: cotton, white, Z4S; depressed, density 24-26 per inch (92-100 dm)
WEFT: white cotton and off white and brown wool. Cotton Z4S; Wool Z spun unplied, 2 parallel, sinous , 1 shoot after each row of knots, cotton alternating with wool. 12 rows to inch,(50 dm)
WIDE FINISH: 1 cord oversewn with purple wool
END FINISH: lower: missing
Upper: incomplete - cut; in places 2 cm warp fringe, some evidence of plain weave in light brown wool. |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile, Carpet; Carpet, wool knotted pile on cotton and wool foundation, design of botehs (paisleys) packed among lotus plants on dark blue ground, possibly Niriz, Iran 1875-1900 |
| Physical description | Carpet Design: Field: dark blue ground with 12+ bands of 7 or 7 1/2 botehs on stems, overlaid with spotted 'S' motifs, otherwise densely packed with floral motifs. Main border: red ground with meander linking a cypress tree with a group of three botehs. Guard stripes: Inner and Outer: light green ground with small red floral motifs. |
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| Credit line | P. C. Manuk and Miss G. M. Coles Bequest through Art Fund |
| Object history | RP 48/2688 P C Manuk, Manchester Sq., W1 Bequest, part of a v. large general bequest. "Carpet - woollen pile, Khorassan, late 19th c." 'They hardly add to our collections on their merits. They will however be very useful to us. The demand for rugs to show with furniture is a steady one. We have lent several rugs to the National Trust (Montacute) and to Aston Hall. Such bodies find it extremely difficult to get rugs and they are only rarely given or bequeathed. I therefore strongly recommend our accepting these eight carpets and three saddlebags." |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.70-1948 |
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| Record created | March 13, 2008 |
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