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Kuba Floral & Heraldic Palmette Pattern
Daniel DSD called this a "Kuba Floral &
Heraldic Palmette pattern" when he wrote it up. That is fine as far as
that goes but I prefer Kuba Harshang variant. Compare this with the Rare Elements NW Persian Harshang Fragment.
Beau Ryan's piece is older and Persian but they are both descended from
the same progenitor.
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Kuba Floral & Heraldic Palmette pattern
Dimension: 155cm X 110cm ,
5ft X 3,6ft
Knot: symmetric slightly open to the right soft wool
short clipped.
Density: H38/10cm V42/10cm 1596/dmē ; H
9-10/pi V 10-11/pi 98/psi
Warps: fine white wool, finely twisted, Z2S, slightly
depressed
Wefts: medium brown wool, 2 shoots
Selvage: flat selvage, 3 cords of 2 warps with
interwoven brown ground wefts and overcast with medium blue wool.
Colours: natural, white, different shade of light to
dark blue, olive, madder red, pink, oxidized black and dark brown,
light yellow, medium brown.
Ends: warp fringes
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Comments:
Related example :
1/ Bennett – Caucasian – plate 307 page 239 – He
makes the following comments: “ It is obviously close in concept to the
large floral carpets of the late 17th and 18th centuries….”
2/Wright and Wertime – Caucasian Carpets &
Covers – picture 23 page 67 – in the top left corner of a 1913
photograph of a Kuba rug display from the Second All Empire
Kustar Exhibition.
3/ Wright and Wertime – Caucasian Carpets
& Covers – picture 63 page 155 – a 1926 photograph from the
Zakgostorg (which replaced the Kustar Committee) exhibition in Kuba.
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4/ This kind of palmette are also found in Sumacs
from this area. Look at the left and right rows of palmettes
of - Bennett – Caucasian – plate 471 page 356
5/ To notice in all this rug the high Persian
influence and the use of very unusual main borders.
Here a “bird and rosette Chila main border”,
in “1” an arabesque main border and in “2” & “3” a vase design
main border.
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Information and picture courtesy
of Daniel DSD
Guide
to Baku Rugs
For Further Reading:
Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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