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Lower band with 12 horned quadrupeds decorated with a smaller pair of the same and surrounded by smaller animals and flowers. Upper band has 2 bands of peacocks - lower: 18 upright and facing towards centre; upper: 12 peacocks woven sideways.\r\nBorders - 4 borders outwards from field: 1 - green lattice in soumak worked over plain weave in red and yellow; 2 - white ground with linked diamond pattern and hook-shaped motifs in red; 3 - green ground with double reciprocal diamond pattern in white and outlined in red; 4 - weft float pattern of diamond in a square in red and white.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28674"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2019LL9637","2011EV3810","2013GD0089","2019LL9639","2019LL9641"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"007","id":"THES325828"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Saddle cover","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Iran","id":"x30220"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"c. 1880","earliest":"1875-01-01","latest":"1884-12-31"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"157.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"maximum","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"162","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"maximum","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"1675","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"11/03/2019","earliest":"2019-03-11","latest":"2019-03-11"},"part":"Top edge","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"1650","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"11/03/2019","earliest":"2019-03-11","latest":"2019-03-11"},"part":"Bottom edge","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"1655","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"11/03/2019","earliest":"2019-03-11","latest":"2019-03-11"},"part":"Proper right","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"1703","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"11/03/2019","earliest":"2019-03-11","latest":"2019-03-11"},"part":"Proper left","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"15.5","unit":"kg","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"11/03/2019","earliest":"2019-03-11","latest":"2019-03-11"},"part":"Weighed on roller","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"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":"Saddle cover, soumak flatweave, deisgn of two horizontal bands with animals and birds, possibly Shiraz, Iran, c.1850-1880.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Similar object: J. Housego, <i>Tribal Rigs: An Introduction to the Weaving of the Tribes of Iran</i> (New York: Van Nostrand Rheinold Co. 1978): pl. 102; I. Bennett, <i> Rugs and Carpets of the World</i> (New York: A & A Publications 1977): 252-3; C. Bier (ed.), <i>Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th-19th Centuries</i> (Washington: The Textile Museum 1987): 322."}],"production":"Possibly Shiraz","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":["1015-1884"],"accessionNumberNum":"1015","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1884,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-05-08","recordCreationDate":"2007-11-12","availableToBook":true}}