rug, prayer, with a red field fringed around the inner border with profile blossoms in dark blue. The prayer niche ahs a stepped outline in blue, white, gold, mauve, and red,a nd is flanked by red ewers in the green panel above the niche. A cross panel dircetly above carries a band of prayer-niche forms in blue, mauve, green, and gold on a red ground. Three borders, the wide central one filled with floral forms in diamond shaped panels on a gold ground, the inner on e of interlocking lozenges on a blue ground, and the outer on e of formalized blossoms alternatin, on the sides, with a gorizontal wine glass motif. Sides overcast in brown wool, ends finished with short warp threads. Ghiordes knot. Wool warp, wool woof, dyed red. Condition good.

Prayer Rug, 19th century

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Title
Prayer Rug
Role
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Accession Number
47.30.7
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rug, prayer, with a red field fringed around the inner border with profile blossoms in dark blue. The prayer niche ahs a stepped outline in blue, white, gold, mauve, and red,a nd is flanked by red ewers in the green panel above the niche. A cross panel dircetly above carries a band of prayer-niche forms in blue, mauve, green, and gold on a red ground. Three borders, the wide central one filled with floral forms in diamond shaped panels on a gold ground, the inner on e of interlocking lozenges on a blue ground, and the outer on e of formalized blossoms alternatin, on the sides, with a gorizontal wine glass motif. Sides overcast in brown wool, ends finished with short warp threads. Ghiordes knot. Wool warp, wool woof, dyed red. Condition good.