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Resist dyed, block printed, painted, pain weave cotton, probably hand woven.\r\nThere is an undecorated red border around four sides and then [1] a border with a white and yellow ground [it varies] and a line of lozenges framed with blue leaves enclosing simple red rosettes.\r\nDescribed from the top downwards: there is a wide band with a white ground and a blue leafy meander bearing large red, black and light blue and yellow exotic blossoms and buds.\r\n[2] a narrow composite band with a white ground and a single line of white and blue botehs separated by flower heads in four variations.\r\n[3] a band with a series of horizontal undulating stripes forming an ogival pattern in red, yellow, blue, white and red with a yellow and then blue centre; all decorated with either a delicate floral meander or floral sprigs.\r\n[4] a narrow band of alternate blue, white and yellow lozenges with red floral elements.\r\nThen there is a deep section [34 cm deep] with a cusped arch with yellow spandrels decorated with a green stemmed spray with blue, white and red blossoms and buds.  The apex of the arch is marked by two large tulip-like heads in similar colours.  In the arch, on a cream ground, is a painted inscription and block-printed cartouche with a smaller inscription.\r\nBands [4], [3] and [1] are repeated.\r\nThere is a less deep section with a red ground and a cream cartouche and painted inscription.\r\nThis arrangement of bands [4], [3] and [1] and a section with an inscription is repeated, giving seven in total, followed by a repetition of bands [4], [3] and [1].\r\nAt the bottom there is [5] a band with a repeating pattern of arches in blue with red spandrels and isolated flower heads in 8 variations followed by a repetition of band [2], a mirror image of band [5] and finally a repetition of band [1].\r\nCanvas patches have been attached to the upper corners at the back to strengthen them for hanging; there is one loop at the right hand corner.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"designed and made by","id":"x28674"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"cotton yarn, weaving, resist dyeing, block printing, painting.","categories":[{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2018LE6309"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"029","id":"THES312320"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Cover","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Iran","id":"x30220"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1800-1910","earliest":"1800-01-01","latest":"1910-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"278.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"45","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"selvedge to selvedge","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"O Aba Abdullah al-Hussain-i shahid\r\nPrinted textile\r\nHaji Aqa Muhammad Husain Ahmad\r\nOne hundred threads [of the highest quality]\r\nIncomplete verses written by the poet Mulana Muhtashim-i Kashani from the Safavid period:\r\nWhat is this popular upheaval in the world again?\r\nWhat is this sadness and mourning again?\r\nwhat is this great apocalypse that without the sounding of the trumpet of [the angel] Esrafil has risen fro mthe earth to high heaven again?\r\nI would not be far from the truth if I call this the world's day of ressurection; this all-encompassing apocalypse that is called Moharram.\r\nIt is as if the sun rises from the west.","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscriptions/labels: part of the design: [1] black printed stamp and [2] inscriptions written in black pigment. Nastaliq script;  Persian language.\r\nas a poet he is most famous for writing elegies. see Mulanad Muhtashim-i Kashan-i edited by Mehr 'Ali Gurgani, Tehran 1344/1965 p.280."}],"objectHistory":"Originally described as an 18th century hanging. \r\nGiven by Sir Charles Marling, British Legation, Tehran\r\nThe RD includes a partial translation of the inscription","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"A printed cotton hanging, Iran, 19th century\r\n","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["T.57-1919"],"accessionNumberNum":"57","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":1919,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2008-04-22","availableToBook":true}}