Carpet Fragment
1525-1550 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Carpet fragment, wool knotted pile on wool foundation, composite arrangement of 21 fragments, design of yellow ogival medallion with foliate scrolls on on red ground, Ottoman court, probably Cairo, Egypt, 1525-1550
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Warp: yellow wool, S4Z, depressed.
Weft: red wool, S spun unplied, 2 parallel threads per shoots
Pile: wool, asymmetrical knots open to the left. |
| Brief description | Carpet fragment, wool knotted pile on wool foundation, composite arrangement of 21 fragments, design of yellow ogival medallion with foliate scrolls on on red ground, Ottoman court, probably Cairo, Egypt, 1525-1550 |
| Style | |
| Object history | Purchased together with a second composite fragment, from Antoine G. Brimo, Istanbul. |
| Associated object | |
| Bibliographic reference | Donald King, Robert Pinner and Michael Franses, "East Mediterranean Carpets in the Victoria & Albert Museum", HALI, 4/1 (1981) pp.36-52: 44. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 337-1892 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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