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Title
- Kerman carpet with garden design (given title)
Collection
Production
- execution: Anonym, Kerman, 1st half of the 17th century
Subject
Material | Technique
- chain
: cotton - , weft: cotton
- , weft: silk
- , weft: wool
- , wool
- , brocading weft: metal thread
- , asymmetrical knot
Measurements
- height: 191 cm
- bottom edge - width: 156 cm
- width: 143 cm
Inventory number
- T 8542
Acquisition
- purchase, 1930
Department
- Textiles and Carpets Collection
Description
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Although small in format, this garden carpet is among the most famous and earliest preserved of its type. Owing to its technical peculiarities, it is the only carpet of the Kerman group that features gold and silver brocade, making it unique. The
field depicts a garden, consisting of six parts, carried into the plain, an extended “chahar bagh,“ the characteristic garden form of the time: water channels and basins, once brocaded in silver, structure the field. Fish and ducks scrimmage in the water courses; the individual compartments are vegetated and populated with animals. An exemplar closely related in terms of motif is located today in the collection of the Maharajah
of Jaipur.
See More:
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carpet / rug, Kerman carpet with garden design, Anonym, MAK Inv.nr. T 8542
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https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/kerman-carpet-with-garden-design_98397
Last update
- 27.09.2024
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