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In this carpet there are 2 rows of horizontal 'birds' and one central row of vertical 'birds' with blossoms and stylised sprays of flowers, predominantly red.  Areas of embroidered restoration down the centre.\r\n\r\nMain border:  wide, white ground with dark yellow and red cloudbands overlying an angular stylized meander.\r\n\r\nOuter border:  white ground with angular yellow meander with small birds and leaves.\r\n\r\n(Analysed through the glass 10.3.99)","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"wool","id":"AAT243430"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"}],"styles":[{"text":"Ottoman","id":"AAT21614"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2006AE9783","2011FB0968","2017KB2108","2019MB9199","2019MB9200","2019MB9201","2019MB9202","2019MB9203"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"BY001","id":"THES325839"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Carpet","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Turkey","id":"x29225"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Usak","id":"x34585"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"17th century","earliest":"1600-01-01","latest":"1700-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Width","value":"1157","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"03/07/2019","earliest":"2019-07-03","latest":"2019-07-03"},"part":"Top Edge","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"1155","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"03/07/2019","earliest":"2019-07-03","latest":"2019-07-03"},"part":"Bottom Edge","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"1890","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"03/07/2019","earliest":"2019-07-03","latest":"2019-07-03"},"part":"Proper Right","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"1870","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"03/07/2019","earliest":"2019-07-03","latest":"2019-07-03"},"part":"Proper Left","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Middle East, Textile;  Carpet of 'bird' design, W Anatolia (Ushak), 16th or 17th century.; 1700s, Turkish","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Mentioned and illustrated X 2, 'Hali' 1984 Vol. 6., No. 4. \"Turkish Carpets in the V & A.\", by Frances & R. Pinner, analyses by S. Jarman.  pp354, 359, 368, 373, 380?, 381\r\npage"}],"production":"c:  King \"The Eastern Carpet.. 1983\", plate 44, p. 76 \"White ground bird carpet.  Anatolia, late 16th or early 17th century\"\r\nBatain (1994): illus. 24 \"Bird\" rug, Usak, late 16th century\"; also illus. 26 and 28 for no inner border.\r\n\r\nEllis (1988), illus. 17 \"Bird rug European Turkey (Wallachia, Romania)?, seventeenth century\". 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It is unusual for a carpet to have the same colour field and main border but this arrangement is typical of this group.\r\n\r\nThere is an area of re-knotting down the centre of the carpet, indicating that it must have been folded along that line and stored that way for a long period.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["457-1884"],"accessionNumberNum":"457","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1884,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-22","recordCreationDate":"2004-06-15","availableToBook":true}}