A SILK KHOTAN CARPET FRAGMENT

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A SILK KHOTAN CARPET FRAGMENT
East Turkestan, CIRCA 1800

The rust-red field with a polychrome latched coffered trellis containing polychrome latched rosettes overall within a rust-red border with a polychrome stylized wave-and-cloud border, pale indigo maze-work inner border and an open rust red outer border, missing small areas of selvage overcast, two holes along right fragmentary edge, one bound edge
Approximately 7ft.8in. x 3ft.10in. (234cm. x 117cm.)

Warp: ivory cotton, Z5S, at edges slightly depressed and slightly undulating, generally considerably depressed and undulating
Weft: 3 shoots, light blue or ivory cotton, Z3S, colour consistent between each row of knots, first and third undulating, second more so
Pile: silk, Z2-4S, asymmetrical open to the left H3.3 x V2.5/cm.
Sides: main weft sometimes runs over three additional warps, sometimes between the three and the outer knotted warp, the extra warps overbound with additional red silk Z2-4S
Lower end: plainweave with light blue cotton, then 4-7 warps knotted together

Provenance

Acquired 4 February 1935 as a "Seiden-Teppich Fragment" for DM95

Literature

Bernheimer, Otto, Alte Teppiche des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts der Firma L. Bernheimer, Munich, 1959, pl.97

Descriptif du lot

The coffered gl pattern of the present piece may reflect the influence of Chinese textiles on East Turkestan carpet designs. A similar design is known on Chinese silk fragments dating from the seventh to ninth centuries (Bidder, Hans: Carpets from Eastern Turkestan, Tbingen, 1964, p.57-59).

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