المؤلف
Unknown Unknown (designed and made by)
تاريخ النشر
1830
مكان النشر
Iran (made) -
الموضوع
Textiles
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Length: 129cm, Width: 92cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
609-1897
رقم السجل
609-1897
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
1830
ملاحظات
1800s, Persian; Whitework, inscription
نص عينة
Note paper label attached on the back near the Museum Number: printed with '9162 BB' and written in ink using Arabic numerals: '114050'. Embroidered with cream silk: five inscriptions which are a combination of poetical prayers and verses from the Qur'an. Badly worrn and now incomplete. (a) outer border: a poetic prayer in Persian and Qur'an Surat al-Ikhlas, 1 and 2. (b) middle border: an entreaty to the 14 religious figures known as Tavassul bi chahardah ma'sum. (c) inner border: poetic prayer to the 14 impeccables in Persian. (d) upper left and right hand corners: Prayer is ascension [to Heaven] for a pious man/believer. (e) upper centre: [?] (f) lower centre: Peace be upon Abraham.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
silk thread, weaving, embroidering, whitework
Fiziksel açıklama
Plain weave silk embroidered with silk in straight stitches; whitework. There is an outer edge of reciprocal diamond heads; a band of inscription; a band with a meandering stem of a serrated leaf and two types of flower; a wider band with an inscription within cartouches; the meander again; narrow band of inscriptions. The field is divided by a lobed arch patterned with a double meander, a round flower and a cluster of 3 leaves. The spandrels contain flowers on curving stems and an inscription embroidered on the diagonal. Towards the top of the arch is an octagonal panel with an inscription [for the Mohr tablet?]; below this is a bowl shape, also enclosing an inscription. At the base of the arch is a vase with lots of flowers which sweep down to fill the lower corners and curve up and around the bowl and octagonal panel. All the motifs are worked in outline only. The flowers include a central group of irises, rosebuds [towards the base of the vase] and daffodils. Not able to determine the twist of the silk used in the ground; cream coloured. Embroidery Thread: cream silk; floss [untwisted] Black ink underdrawing is visible.
