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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s in so many Shiraz rugs,even to the fine old pieces of pure Persian design. Dismissing argument as to the locality of its origin, attention should be called to thesplendid consistency of the carpet, both in figuration and color. Instead of any complicatedborder design, the pear figure, only a little reduced in size, is used in the border, andthe border ground is a deep red, closely approaching the ruby color of the Bergamos. In the field there is just sufficient departure from the pear device to satisfy the super-stitious notion, common among the mountain people, that a touch of irregularity combatsthe evil spirits. Once the pear is omitted to make way for a dense array of colored spotsrepresenting nothing in particular. Once appears the eight-pointed star of the Medes; twicethe octagons, such as are found in the Tekke rugs; and once, where half the pear figure hasbeen purposely omitted, a wooden animal shape of the sort that figure in the carpets ofthe Caucasians and Northern Kurds.
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1310 From its shape and dimensions there is reason to believe that this rug is only thesarandaz, or short strip, which lies across the end in the triclinium scheme of carpeting, andsomewhere in the world are the huge centrepiece and the equally substantial side stripswhich were woven to accompany it. It is hard to imagine a more splendid covering for thefloor of a large apartment than these four sections formed when they were united. Themaking of the blue, of which such magnificent display is made here, is practically a lost artin Persia since the introduction of the chemical dyes, and in the whole range of Persianfabrics it would probably be impossible to discover a finer example than this of the lumi-nosity of wool. 1309 — Kiirdish Strip. (Companion piece to No. 1304.)Length, 19 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet. 80 hand-tied knots (Turkish) to the square inch. The makatlik, or kinari—the Turkish and Persian names, respectively, for these runners—aremerely the side strips of the tr

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