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Catalog Level: item
Type: carpet
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Classification
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Terms:
decorative arts
textiles
Islamic art
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Titles or Names
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Text: Ardabil Carpet
Preference: preferred
Type: repository
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Creation
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Creator Description: Maqsud of Kashan
(Persian, active in 16th century)
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Identity: Maqsud of Kashan
Role: designer
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Creation Date:
946 anno Hegirae (1540 CE)
Earliest:
1540 Latest:
1540
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Creation Place/Original Location: Safi-ud-din
Mosque (Ardabil, Iran)
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Indexing Terms:
Persian
Safavid Dynasty
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Measurements
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Dimensions Description: 729 x 409 cm
(23 feet 11 inches x 13 feet 5 inches); knot density
around 325 knots per square inch
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Value: 729 Unit: cm Type:
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Value: 409 Unit: cm Type:
width
Dimensions Extent: knot density per square
inch
Value: 325 Type: count
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Materials and Techniques
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Description: pile is wool, in places
both wool and silk; warp and weft are of cotton; knots
are Turkish Ghiordes (symmetrical knots); outer border
has been replaced
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Material Names:
wool
cotton
silk
Technique Names:
weaving
symmetrical knots
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Inscriptions/Marks
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Transcription or Description: signed
by Maqsud of Kashan, dated 946 A.H. Inscribed with Persian
couplet from The Divan, by the fourteenth-century lyrical
poet Hafiz: [I have no refuge in this world other than
thy threshold; My head has no resting place other than
this doorway]
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Subject Matter
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Indexing Terms:
object (utilitarian)
religion/mythology
worship
lamps
medallions
The Divan, Hafiz (Persian poet, 1325-1389)
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Descriptive Note
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Text: Design includes a central medallion
with radiating pendants; quarter medallions repeated
in the corners; unique design element seen in the lamps
projecting from the top and bottom of the central medallion;
designs are set against a dense field of flowers that
grow from scrolling leafy vines. This large carpet and
its nearly identical mate, now in London, were made
for the mosque of Safi-ud-din in Ardabil, which is the
holiest of Persian religious shrines. Since the artist
was from Kashan, the carpet was probably actually produced
there, and not made in Ardabil, which produces a different
style of carpet. In this carpet, the central medallion
with radiating pendants was ultimately derived from
contemporary and earlier bookbinding and manuscript
illumination.
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Citations: Los Angeles County Museum
of Art online
Page: accessed 17 July 2006
Citations: Scott, Carpets in the Victoria
and Albert Museum, (2003)
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Current Location
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Repository Name/Geographic Location:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, California,
United States)
Repository Numbers:
53.50.2
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Related Works
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Relationship Type: mate of
Related Object/Work Label/Identification:
Ardabil Carpet; Maqsud of Kashan (Persian, active in
16th century); 1540; Victoria and Albert Museum (London,
England); 272-1893
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