Vase-technique Carpet with Overlapping Cartouches

Unknown Artist

17th century

Vase-technique Carpet with Overlapping Cartouches by Unknown Artist

Medium

Cotton (warp), silk (weft), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile

Dimensions

Rug: L. 189 in. (480.1 cm) W. 127 in. (322.6 cm) Tube: L. 140 in. (355.6 cm) Diam. 20 in. (50.8 cm) Wt. 75 lbs. (34 kg) (Carpet weighed with 120 lb. tube at 195 lbs.)

Classification

Textiles-Rugs

Department

Islamic Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Horace Havemeyer, 1956

Accession Number

56.185.1

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