File:17-9 3-1964-Saltingtaeppe Photo-Pernille-Klemp-f.jpg
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So-called Salting carpet, wool, silk and metal thread. about 1600. 226 × 162 cm. About a ottepas-shaped medallion with arabesques is a rectangular panel with phoenixes and other exotic birds in tendrils with Chinese-inspired flowers. The broadest of the three surrounding borders have ten fields with Persian verses written in Nastaliq - a mirror. The color scheme is very varied and supplemented with silver thread.The rug if decoration clearly reflects the Safavid court style around 1600, belongs to a group which for a time thought was Turkish copies 19th century older Persian originals. This assumption has now been disproved by historical, stylistic, and especially technological arguments.
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| current | 20:01, 3 January 2017 | | 2,704 × 3,647 (8.01 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | So-called Salting carpet, wool, silk and metal thread. about 1600. 226 × 162 cm. About a ottepas-shaped medallion with arabesques is a rectangular panel with phoenixes and other exotic birds in tendrils with Chinese-inspired flowers. The broadest of the three surrounding borders have ten fields with Persian verses written in Nastaliq - a mirror. The color scheme is very varied and supplemented with silver thread.The rug if decoration clearly reflects the Safavid court style around 1600, belongs to a group which for a time thought was Turkish copies 19th century older Persian originals. This assumption has now been disproved by historical, stylistic, and especially technological arguments. |
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