Details
A SILK, COTTON AND METAL THREAD KAISERI RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1880
The plum-red field scattered with palmette vine sprays and a variety of animals around a large cusped metal-thread medallion, the lobes containing animals, cypress trees and perching birds, the pendants similar, the cusped blackcurrant-red centrepiece with palmettes, the spandrels with animal lobes and leafy vine, in a metal thread border of red rosettes alternating with fleeting animals between floral meander stripes, a short kilim strip at one end, field colour corroded, otherwise good condition
Approximately 5ft.10in. x 3ft.11in. (178cm. x 119cm.)
Warp: cotton, white, Z3S
Weft: a) oval shaped inner field, 2 shoots, cotton, white, Z3S, undulating
b) other areas, 4, 6 or 8 shoots, cotton bound with metal thread, large areas without knotting
Pile: cotton, Z1, symmetrical inclining to the left, H3.5 x V5.1/cm.
Sides: additional violet cotton shoot bound together, flat woven with three other pairs of warp threads, the foundation weft wound around a warp thread
Ends: flat woven, cotton, violet, Z3S
WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1880
The plum-red field scattered with palmette vine sprays and a variety of animals around a large cusped metal-thread medallion, the lobes containing animals, cypress trees and perching birds, the pendants similar, the cusped blackcurrant-red centrepiece with palmettes, the spandrels with animal lobes and leafy vine, in a metal thread border of red rosettes alternating with fleeting animals between floral meander stripes, a short kilim strip at one end, field colour corroded, otherwise good condition
Approximately 5ft.10in. x 3ft.11in. (178cm. x 119cm.)
Warp: cotton, white, Z3S
Weft: a) oval shaped inner field, 2 shoots, cotton, white, Z3S, undulating
b) other areas, 4, 6 or 8 shoots, cotton bound with metal thread, large areas without knotting
Pile: cotton, Z1, symmetrical inclining to the left, H3.5 x V5.1/cm.
Sides: additional violet cotton shoot bound together, flat woven with three other pairs of warp threads, the foundation weft wound around a warp thread
Ends: flat woven, cotton, violet, Z3S
Provenance
Acquired 13 October 1953 as a "Panderma" for DM800