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Carpet Fragment

late 1800s–early 1900s

Iran, Rayy

Medium
Silk: knotted pile
Measurements
Overall: 61 x 37.5 cm (24 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Milton Girod 1988.243
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This rectangular fragment has large spade-shaped palmettes filling each corner. The palmettes bear dark blue and red animals and birds on a cream/ivory background. The central dark blue medallion encloses an irregular, inscription-bearing green square. At the top and bottom center is a smaller inscription-bearing square with date palms extending from cardinal points; vertical palms divide the rectangle, and horizontal palms delineate the start of a new repeat wherein palmettes have dark blue background with cream/ivory animal figures.
A yellow-brown vertically long silk carpet fragment features a dark blue medallion circling a green square in the middle. Into the four corners around it extend blue silhouetted spade shapes framing dark blue and red animals. Below this pattern, red lines extend from a blue square with more animals outlined against blue cut off below. Green date palms wind from the top of each point of the red lines.

Carpet Fragment

late 1800s–early 1900s

Iran, Rayy

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