1943.1684: Small bag, or possibly a panel from a cargo bag
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.1684
- Title
- Small bag, or possibly a panel from a cargo bag
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- rug
- Date
- c. 1860
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Fars province
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/214543
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Warps: 3 Z spun S plied undyed white wool, some slightly darker; alternate warps slightly depressed. Weft: 1 ply Z spun undyed buff, or dyed red (Qashqai); 2 or 3 yarns per shoot. Pile: 2 S plied Z spun wool. Pile colors: dark indigo blue, blue green, medium blue, yellow, yellow green, white, dark brown/black. Knots: asymmetrical, open to the left. Knots per vertical decimeter: 49. Knots per horizontal decimeter: 48. Both selvedges: rewrapped. Top end: approz 1 cm. blue and white double cloth float weaved followed by double line countered soumak in red and white. Bottom end: stripped.
- Technique
- Woven with pile
- Dimensions
- 25 x 31.5 cm (9 13/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.1684
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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