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1850 / 1899, Iran

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Identifier
T.224-1923
Collection
Middle East Section
Technique
  • Embroidery 87%
  • Embroidery 83%
  • Embroidery 83%
  • Embroidery 100%
  • Embroidery 78%
  • Embroidery 79%
Depiction
  • Geometrical motif 84%
  • Geometrical motif 90%
  • Geometrical motif 79%
  • Geometrical motif 84%
Dimension
17 cm (length)
8 cm (width)
Production time
1850 / 1899
19th century (dates CE)
Production place
Iran
Type of object
costume

Description

Knitted silk purse, stocking stitch, with metal thread loops. Displayed behind glass. Acquired in Julfa, the Armenian suburb of Isphahan. Red, purple, green, black, white, yellow and mauve silk. A long, narrow purse with a rounded bottom, open at the top. There seems to be 2 gold coloured metal thread loops, one at either side of the opening. Seemingly independent of these is a silk cord which has been passed through small thread loops and which could be pulled tight to close the purse. The cord ends with a 'pendant' of interlaced gold coloured metal thread. The purse is decorated with a series of barrow bands along the upper part: purple, reciprocal yellow and black trefoils, an indistinct green pattern on a purple ground, the trefoils again and then a series of vertical stripes on a white ground. There is a narrow and two wider stripes visible: the narrow contains a meander and the wider contain 2 stylized plants with a pair of birds perched on their top. The colours are used in bands: purple, green, red, mauve, purple etc.. Towards the rounded bottom there is a repeat of the trefoil band either side of a purple band with joining X- and S-motifs in white. There seem to be narrow bands going down to the bottom in which a band with a star motif is in between bands of red, green and purple.

The data contained in ADASilk comes from the archives of Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, CDMT Terrassa, Europeana, Gallica, Garín 1820, Joconde Database of French Museum Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mobilier International, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Musée des Tissus, Musei di Venezia, Museo de Arte Sacro El Tesoro de la Concepción, Paris Musées, Red Digital de Colecciones de Museos de España, Rhode Island School of Design, Sicily Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian, Versailles, Victoria and Albert Museum. The Virtual Loom and Spatio-Temporal Maps visualizations have been developed by Universitat de Valencia. ADASilk is based on a generic exploratory search engine for knowledge graphs being developed at EURECOM and includes scientific contributions from Universitat de Valencia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Lyon 2, Universita Degli Studi di Palermo, GARIN 1820 S.A., Institut Jozef Stefan, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Monkeyfab, and Instituto Cervantes.

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