Caption

Carpet, gift; 18th century, Caucasus. Main field with floral branches arranged in alternating rows. Two-band border: wide inner one with flowering tree motifs and narrow outer one with a tendril. Colors: brown, yellow, and red backgrounds. Motifs are highly geometric. Materials: fabric; height 219 cm, width 111 cm., A rectangular woven textile with an overall pattern of repeating floral-like motifs in rows on a dark brown field, surrounded by a wide mustard yellow border that contains geometric, cross-like designs; the textile shows colors including dark brown, mustard yellow, red, pink, blue, teal, green, and small areas of cream, with visible wear and slight fading in places, fringed edges at the top and bottom, and narrow side bands with alternating small geometric elements.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A13_164

License type

Rights managed

Available size

44.6Mb (3.9Mb) / 9.4in x 18.4in / 2825 x 5515 (300dpi)

Keywords

Carpet gift 18th century Caucasus Main field floral branches arranged alternating rows Two-band border wide inner flowering tree motifs narrow outer tendril Colors brown yellow red backgrounds Motifs highly geometric Materials fabric height 219 cm width 111 cm rectangular woven textile pattern repeating floral- motifs rows dark brown field surrounded wide mustard yellow border contains geometric cross- designs textile colors dark brown mustard yellow red pink blue teal green small areas cream visible wear slight fading places fringed edges top bottom narrow side bands alternating small geometric elements.