Hanging for a Mosque or Shrine (Parda) with Muharram Elegy

Titre

En Hanging for a Mosque or Shrine (Parda) with Muharram Elegy

Fr Tenture de mosquée ou de sanctuaire (Parda) avec élégie de Muharram

Type

Textile / Hanging

Créateur/ Créatrice

Unknown

Identifiant

T.57-1919

Format

Cotton yarn, weaving, resist dyeing, block printing, painting

Dimension

L. 278.5 cm, W. 45 cm (selvedge to selvedge)

Lieu de découverte

Iran

Résumé

En Hanging for a mosque or shrine. Resist dyed, block printed, painted, pain weave cotton, probably hand woven.
There is an undecorated red border around four sides and then [1] a border with a white and yellow ground [it varies] and a line of lozenges framed with blue leaves enclosing simple red rosettes.
Described from the top downwards: there is a wide band with a white ground and a blue leafy meander bearing large red, black and light blue and yellow exotic blossoms and buds.
[2] a narrow composite band with a white ground and a single line of white and blue botehs separated by flower heads in four variations.
[3] a band with a series of horizontal undulating stripes forming an ogival pattern in red, yellow, blue, white and red with a yellow and then blue centre; all decorated with either a delicate floral meander or floral sprigs.
[4] a narrow band of alternate blue, white and yellow lozenges with red floral elements.
Then there is a deep section [34 cm deep] with a cusped arch with yellow spandrels decorated with a green stemmed spray with blue, white and red blossoms and buds. The apex of the arch is marked by two large tulip-like heads in similar colours. In the arch, on a cream ground, is a painted inscription and block-printed cartouche with a smaller inscription.
Bands [4], [3] and [1] are repeated.
There is a less deep section with a red ground and a cream cartouche and painted inscription.
This arrangement of bands [4], [3] and [1] and a section with an inscription is repeated, giving seven in total, followed by a repetition of bands [4], [3] and [1].
At the bottom there is [5] a band with a repeating pattern of arches in blue with red spandrels and isolated flower heads in 8 variations followed by a repetition of band [2], a mirror image of band [5] and finally a repetition of band [1].
Canvas patches have been attached to the upper corners at the back to strengthen them for hanging; there is one loop at the right hand corner.

Date

1800-1910

Contribution

Sir Charles Marling

Source

Given by Sir Charles Marling, British Legation, Tehran

Edition

Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Middle East Section)

Référence

V&A Collections

Langue

Fa

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Licence

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