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A floral spring with a green stem and a blue main flower alternates with a floral spring with a blue stem and a white flower. Each flower supports a spray of three smaller flowers and the whole design is framed by a circle and cap of flowers which provides the boteh shape. The field is filled with varying sizes of botehs and birds.\r\nBorders: 7 borders outwards from field: 1 - a reciprocal trefoil in red and green; 2 - white ground with narrow diagonal blocks in most colours; 3 - reciprocal trefoil in dark blue and orange; 4 (main) - red ground and angular floral meander with light blue stems bearing light red serrated leaves, dark blue diagonal leaves and brown or green rosettes. Across the right-hand border are 3 green birds with 2 on the left and many small flowers. In upper left-hand corner is an inscription in white; 5 - as border 3; 6 - as border 2; 7 - red ground with twisted ribbon design in yellow and brown and outlined in light blue.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28674"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Wool","id":"x40131"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Knotted pile","id":"x32037"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Wool knotted pile on wool foundation, asymmetric knot.\nWarp: dark brown; wool; Z2S; not depressed; 18 knots per inch (68 per dm).\r\nWeft: dark brown, dark green, and red in irregular bands; wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots (occasionally 3 or 4 woven in short wedges); 8 rows of knots per inch (30 per dm).\r\nPile: wool; 9 colours: red, light red, light orange, yellow, green, dark blue, light blue, dark brown, white; asymmetrical knot, open to left and tied around 2 warp threads; 1 cord oversewn with red and green wool in stripes.\r\nSide finish -  lower end: missing; upper end: row of warp turning and warp threads twisted to form fringe.","categories":[{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"}],"styles":[{"text":"Qashqai","id":"AAT244148"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2017JU2393","2017JU2394","2017JU2395","2017JU2396","2011EU3870","2012FP7498","2019MA7402"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"005","id":"THES325424"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Carpet","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Iran","id":"x30220"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Fars","id":"x32848"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1840-1875","earliest":"1840-01-01","latest":"1875-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"283.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"199.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"27.5","unit":"kg","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"14/10/2013","earliest":"2013-10-14","latest":"2013-10-14"},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Weight including roller and pole","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Yusuf `Ali","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"The name Yusuf `Ali is woven into the top right and left corners of the carpet. It is unusual to find a man's name is this context, as nomadic weavers were usually women."}],"objectHistory":"Bought from the collection of Gaston de Saint-Maurice (1831-1905) in 1884. Saint-Maurice displayed his extensive art collection at the 1878 Paris exhibition, in a gallery entitled L'Egypte des Khalifes. This was part of an official sequence of displays celebrating the history of Egypt, presented by the Egyptian state at this international event. Saint-Maurice held a position at the Khedival court, and had lived in Cairo in 1868-1878. Following the exhibition, Saint-Maurice offered his collection for sale to the South Kensington Museum (today the V&A).","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Middle East, Textile, Carpet; Carpet, wool knotted pile on wool foundation, design of offset botehs against blue ground, inscribed Yusuf Ali, possibly Lur or Kashkuli (Qashqai) tribe, Fars province, Iran, 1840-1875","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Related carpet: <u>Hali</u>, 34 (April/June 1987): 15."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[{"text":"Gaston de Saint-Maurice","id":"C4450"}],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[{"text":"Paris International Exhibition, 1878","id":"V165"}],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["1013-1884"],"accessionNumberNum":"1013","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1884,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-15","recordCreationDate":"2007-10-15","availableToBook":true}}