Carpet
1800-1900 (made)
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Carpet, grid design of octagonal gols on purple ground.
DESIGN: Field: dark purple ground with 15 bands of 4 guls. Outer gul is quartered red/white within an octagonal frame and each quarter contains a 2-headed horned brown animal. The centre of the gul contains a hooked X-motif. There are 14 and 2 half bands of a minor quartered hexagonal gul with 3 and 2 half to each band (with only a left-hand half gul in the lowest 4 and half bands). The minor guls are separated vertically by small stepped lozenges containing a small diamond. The lower half of the extreme right of the field contains several small geometric shapes and 3 rows of stylised flowerheads.
Main border: white ground with stepped lozenges in various colours, each containing a motif resembling a pair of birds on either side of a stylised tree (except for the lower right hand border where the lowest 5 lozenges contain a diamond). The lozenges are separated on both sides by a single or multi-coloured triangle.
Inner and outer border: dark purple ground with left-facing S-motifs in mainly red, green and white; on either side are stripes with a dark purple ground and mirrored pairs of diagonal blocks in fours in mainly red, green and white.
DESIGN: Field: dark purple ground with 15 bands of 4 guls. Outer gul is quartered red/white within an octagonal frame and each quarter contains a 2-headed horned brown animal. The centre of the gul contains a hooked X-motif. There are 14 and 2 half bands of a minor quartered hexagonal gul with 3 and 2 half to each band (with only a left-hand half gul in the lowest 4 and half bands). The minor guls are separated vertically by small stepped lozenges containing a small diamond. The lower half of the extreme right of the field contains several small geometric shapes and 3 rows of stylised flowerheads.
Main border: white ground with stepped lozenges in various colours, each containing a motif resembling a pair of birds on either side of a stylised tree (except for the lower right hand border where the lowest 5 lozenges contain a diamond). The lozenges are separated on both sides by a single or multi-coloured triangle.
Inner and outer border: dark purple ground with left-facing S-motifs in mainly red, green and white; on either side are stripes with a dark purple ground and mirrored pairs of diagonal blocks in fours in mainly red, green and white.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Wool knotted pile carpet, asymmetric knot.
WARP: brown wool; Z2S; 16 threads per inch (65 per dm).
WEFT: white wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 12 knots per inch (50 per dm).
PILE: wool; 7 colours: red, green (various shades, including brownish ones, throughout), light blue (apparently as a substitute for green), dark purple, pink, brown, white; asymmetrical knot open to the right and tied around 2 threads; 96 knots per sq. inch (1625 knots per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH: 2 cords overcast with dark pink wool.
END FINISH: Lower and Upper: some evidence of plain weave with red weft; loose warp fringe max. 9.5 cms. long |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile, Carpet; Carpet, wool knotted pile on wool foundation, grid design of octagonal 'gols', Arabachi Turkoman, Amu Darya, Turkmenistan, 1800-1900 |
| Physical description | Carpet, grid design of octagonal gols on purple ground. DESIGN: Field: dark purple ground with 15 bands of 4 guls. Outer gul is quartered red/white within an octagonal frame and each quarter contains a 2-headed horned brown animal. The centre of the gul contains a hooked X-motif. There are 14 and 2 half bands of a minor quartered hexagonal gul with 3 and 2 half to each band (with only a left-hand half gul in the lowest 4 and half bands). The minor guls are separated vertically by small stepped lozenges containing a small diamond. The lower half of the extreme right of the field contains several small geometric shapes and 3 rows of stylised flowerheads. Main border: white ground with stepped lozenges in various colours, each containing a motif resembling a pair of birds on either side of a stylised tree (except for the lower right hand border where the lowest 5 lozenges contain a diamond). The lozenges are separated on both sides by a single or multi-coloured triangle. Inner and outer border: dark purple ground with left-facing S-motifs in mainly red, green and white; on either side are stripes with a dark purple ground and mirrored pairs of diagonal blocks in fours in mainly red, green and white. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mrs Lesley Pinner |
| Production | cf: Gombos (1975) ill. 22, "Ersari, 19th century" and ill. 21 "Kizil-Ajak, 19th century" Azadi (1975) ill. 9, "ersari of the Kizil-Ayak, first quarter of the 19th century" NB. colour. Tzareva (1984) ill. 93, "Ersari Khali, 19th century". Donated by Dr. Robert Pinner, Twickenham, in memory of Mrs Lesley Pinner Turcoman (Chodor) carpet. "It fills a gap in the collection. These carpets are especially valuable at present.." NR to Director |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.17-1982 |
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| Record created | October 9, 2008 |
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