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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circa 1600 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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