Identifier: illustratedcatal00amer_8 (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry G. Marquand
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas Ellis, 1846-1924 Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Marquand, Henry G
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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hich appears in its intricate form, seem to have come fromthe Turko-Tartar territories away beyond the Caspian. 1301—Karabagh Strip. Length, 13 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet 4 inches. 99 hand-tied knots (Turkish) to the square inch. The Turkoman idea is strongly followed in the central design; the tree motive, with a narrowbarber-pole stripe serving as a trunk, is very common in many of the Yomud andBokhara rugs, where it is used as a border device. The borders here are characteristic ofthe Karabagh and so-called Gandja products—the wine-glass pattern in the wider borderand the reciprocals in the narrow ones. The colors are big and bold ; the blue field of goodquality. Strips from this section are by no means so plentiful as they were, for the outputof Karabagh, since Russia obtained control of the Caucasus and transportation becameeasier, has been chiefly in small oblong rugs, and the weaving of runners has been left forthe most part to the Kurds of Western Persia and Mesopotamia.
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1305 1302—Kurdish Strip. Length, 20 feet 8 inches ; width, 3 feet 6 inches. 48 hand-tied knots Turkish (doubled) to the square inch. A sterling piece of heavy carpet from Kurdistan, presenting in its field an alternation of the stand-ard pear and tree patterns. The pear is drawn in such fashion as to resemble in its orna-mentation the tree form of Western Persia. It is a strong pattern, and gains in force frombeing set upon a wool-white ground. The profile flowers are shown in heavy form consistentwith the general character of the fabric, and the vine is correspondingly strong. The rugis worn at the ends, from which an idea may be got, by comparison, of its original thickness;but on the whole, its defects are few. 1303—Kurdish Strip. Length, 21 feet 11 inches ; width, 3 feet 6 inches. 48 hand-tied knots (Turkish, doubled) to the square inch. A companion piece to No. 1302, and so far as there is a difference this may be considered the betterof the two. The great length of the pair

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