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Persian · Late 19th Century
Love Poem from Kashan
A Persian love poem is woven into the medallion of this small silk piece, its verses worked in gold thread against indigo. Kashan at its most literary: a carpet meant to be read as much as walked upon. Nine hundred knots to the square inch, in silk and gold.
Love poem from Kashan.. Persian poem in the medallion.. Made of pure silk and gold
Central cartouche medallion carrying Persian verse in woven calligraphy, gold thread against an indigo-teal ground; metal-thread highlights.
- Size
- 4′9″ × 3′1″
- Style
- Persian — Kashan
- Era
- Late 19th Century
- Pile
- Silk / Gold
- Foundation
- Silk
- Weave
- Hand-knotted
- Dyes
- Vegetable
- Condition
- Excellent
Some photographs are styled visualisations; the piece itself is photographed unretouched.