- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1977.141
- People
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Unknown Artist
- Title
- Prayer Carpet
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- rug
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Turkey, Gördes
- Culture
- Turkish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/214702
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Warps: 2 S plied Z spun undyed ivory wool; alternate warps slightly depressed; pronounced lazy lines. Weft: 1 Z spun strand in light red and brown; 2 yarns per shoot, with alternating green and brown yarns, some single yarn shots. Pile: 2 S plied Z spun wool; cotton. Pile colors (wool): light green, light blue, white wool, purply-red, maroon red, brick red, pink, medium blue, dark blue, olive green, pale ecru (possibly faded from?) yellow. White pile is cotton. Knots per vertical decimeter: 49. Knots per horizontal decimeter: 37/38. Woven upside down.
- Technique
- Woven with pile
- Dimensions
- 185 x 135 cm (72 13/16 x 53 1/8 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Gowing, Harborne W. Stuart, Peggy Coolidge, and the Estate of W.I. Stuart In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Willioughby H. Stuart, Jr.
- Accession Year
- 1977
- Object Number
- 1977.141
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Prayer carpet with dark blue niche; all four borders taken from Kirsehir forms. Elmaleh border with three flowers on a spray. Upper panel with sprays of flowers, lower panel is typical Gordes with S-like forms possibly related to cloudbands.
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