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| - Carpet, Hunting Carpet, Sanguszko Carpet, hand knotted woollen pile on cotton warp and cotton and silk weft, Persian, 16th century.
Warp: white cotton, Z4S, 30 threads per inch/ 122 per dm; depressed
Weft: white cotton and white silk; unable to ascertain spin, ply and twist, 3 shoots after each row of knots [probably two of cotton and one of silk]; 15 knots per inch/60 per dm.
Pile: wool; 13 colours: red, orange, yellow, light yellow, dark green, green, dark blue, blue, light blue, brown, light brown, pink, white; asymmetrical knot open to the left and tied around two warp threads; 225 knots per sq.inch/3660 per sq.dm
Side Finish: Missing
End Finish: Missing
Design: Field: red ground with a central medallion which has a yellow ground and which has broad blue interlaced stems containing small flowerheads. The interlacing encloses animals and flowers and there is a apir of birds in the centre. Above and below this medallion there is a blue ground cartouche and a yellow ground pendant. There are quarter medallions in the corners of the field: these have a dark blue ground and contain three angels, two of which hold animals or birds.The red field is decorated with animals in combat; these include chilins, tigers, wolves, cheetahs and gazelles. There are also human faces within the larger blossoms. The ground is decorated with delicate green curving stems and blossoms.
Main border, part of which is missing along the left hand side: white ground with large dark blue palmettes, animals in combat, blue/yellow rosettes and long serrated blue leaves.
Inner border: yellow ground with an orange meander with blue/white/red flowers and brown/white rosettes.
Outer border, missing along the left hand side: dark blue ground with adouble meander in red outlined with yellow. There are large orange or yellow animals heads alternating with a small blue head in profile. (en)
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