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Two-faced Carpet Fragment

1100s
(1037–1194)
senna knot
Overall: 39.3 x 16.2 cm (15 1/2 x 6 3/8 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Abegg 1966.132
Location: not on view
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The tulip symbolizes modesty before God because, when in full bloom, it bows its head.

Description

This fragment preserves portions of designs of two faces of a carpet. One design depicts a stylized tulip with part of its mirror image. The opposite side depicts a pair of winged ibexes oriented at right angles to the "tulip" design.
Two-faced Carpet Fragment

Two-faced Carpet Fragment

1100s

Iran ?, Seljuq period (1037–1194)

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