| Accession Nr.: | 74.116.1 |
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| Date of production: |
late 19th century
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| Materials: | wool |
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| Techniques: | Senneh (asymmetrical or Persian) knot |
| Dimensions: |
length: 135 cm
width: 110 cm
knots: 1080 csomó/dm2
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The reddish brown field shows five rows of three quartered octagonal medallions ("gols") with trefoils. The blue main stripe of the border is decorated with starry foliage. The import of carpets from Central Asia had a boom at the end of the nineteenth century. Central Asian carpets with red as the dominating colour were used first of all in gentlemen's rooms.
Literature
- a kiállítást rendezte: Batári Ferenc, Vadászi Erzsébet: Historizmus és eklektika. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1992. - Nr. 108.
- Gombos Károly: Régi középázsiai szőnyegek. Sárvári Nádasdy Ferenc Múzeum, Sárvár, 1979. - Nr. 76.
