Author
Unknown Unknown (designed and made by)
Publication Date
1800
Publication Place
Iran (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Length: 38.5cm, Width: 25cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
443-1899
Record ID
443-1899
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1800
Notes
embroidered, 1700s, Persian
Malzemeler ve teknikler
silk thread, metal thread, weaving, embroidering
Fiziksel açıklama
Cut silk velvet embroidered with couched silk and metal thread edged with a looped fringe of metal thread. Displayed behind glass. Red velvet with a band of couched metal thread around the sides. In the centre is a rosette with four pairs of leaves and a fine 4-lobed medallion around it; beyond this is a frame of 2 cone motifs and 2 flowers in profile linked by 4 leaves and finally a line forming a lobed lozenge. At the top and bottom of this lozenge there is a trefoil or acorn motif leading into a larger and more elaborate version. A pair of curving stems emerge and sweep into the corners and down the sides, meeting in a rosette on either side of the central lozenge. These stems bear many leaves and a large flower and there is a bird towards each corner. Each stem leads into a curving stem in silver and dark blue bearing small blue and pink flowers. In some oft he leaves lines of pink silk are worked among the metal thread. Some of the metal thread stems have been worked over padding.
