- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1977.145
- People
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Unknown Artist
- Title
- Prayer Carpet
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- rug
- Date
- c. 1800
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Turkey, Lâdik
- Culture
- Turkish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/216465
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Warps: 2 Z spun S plied undyed ivory wool; alternate warps on distinct levels. Weft: 1 ply Z spun buff and undyed brown and dark brown wool; almost all two yarns per shoot. Pile: 2 Z spun S plied wool. Pile colors: dark red, light red, orange, salmon pink, heavily abrashed green/blue-green, green, dark blue, light blue, purple, undyed ivory, and corrosive brown-black. Knots: symmetrical Knots per vertical decimter: 44/43. Knots per horizontal decimeter: 31. Both selvedges replaced: 2 bundles of 2 or 3 warps wrapped in buff weft. Both ends: restored. Woven upside down.
- Technique
- Woven with pile
- Dimensions
- 195 x 115 cm (76 3/4 x 45 1/4 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. Willoughby H. Stuart, Jr.
- Accession Year
- 1977
- Object Number
- 1977.145
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Rosettes, tulips and leaves, carnations.
- Exhibition History
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Pride of the Village: Rugs and Kilims of Turkey, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/08/1988 - 10/09/1988
Enter Ye the Garden: Prayer Rugs of Islam, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/26/1989 - 08/20/1989
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