Persian Carpet Polonaise

A carpet with a very similar field design and the same coloured reciprocal border can be seen in the museo nazionale del palazzo de venezia rome gifted by a mrs henrietta tower wurts in 1933 i.

Persian carpet polonaise.

فرش ايرانى romanized. Many were also brought to europe by persian embassies as gifts from the shahs and some were commissioned in iran by visiting europeans. Antique polonaise rugs embellished with threads in precious metals antique polonaise rugs are among the most elegant and lavish of the court productions made under the safavid dynasty in iran during the seventeenth century. In this rug soft luminescent tones are complemented with highlights of silver metallic thread that enhance sinuous vegetation and a variety of distinctly persian field designs.

High quality handmade oriental rugs. At our retail store in durham you ll find an inventory of over 7000 handmade rugs an extensive variety of styles sizes designs colors and textures. Large numbers of these antique rugs were exported to poland where they were highly prized by the aristocracy at a. Though polonaise carpets are relatively common the design of overlapping cartouches seen here is rare.

قالی ايرانى romanized. Polonaise carpets are renowned for their elegance and classic beauty. The persian designs were joined by european motifs and the carpets even showed the crests of the rulers. A persian carpet persian.

Sabatini polonaise carpets in baroque rome oriental carpet textile studies vii icoc 2011 pp 100 fig 1. In fact these carpets were made in iran and shipped abroad in large numbers. Qâli ye irâni ɢɒːˈliːje ʔiːɾɒːˈniː also known as iranian carpet is a heavy textile made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes and produced in iran historically known as persia for home. Express yourself at the persian carpet purveyors of the finest and most diverse range of oriental rugs in the carolinas for more than forty years.

The most beautiful of these inspired jan kath to create his polonaise collection. He reconstructed thecolors most of which had faded added his own motifs and use the antique finishing process as well as typical jan kath signatures to add. Carpets of indo persian design were introduced to europe via the dutch british and french east india companies of the 17th and 18th century and in the polish lithuanian commonwealth by armenian merchants polish carpets or polonaise carpets. Antique plolonaise rugs and early persian carpets.