Printed Cotton (Border Fragment)

Titre: En Printed Cotton (Border Fragment); Fr Coton imprimé (fragment de bordure)
Type: Printed cotton / Textile
Créateur/ Créatrice: Unknown
Identifiant: 1187-1888
Format: Plain weave cotton, printed and painted
Dimension: 57× 28.5cm
Lieu de découverte: Iran
Résumé: En Part of a border, printed and painted plain weave cotton.
Displayed behind glass.
White ground with blue along the lower edge. Effectively there are 6 bands, described from the bottom:
[1] green ground with small blue star-like flowers and red 4-petalled flowers linked by a pair of curving dark stems;
[2] white ground with 5 large many-petalled flowers in red. In between these are 2 different sprays of small stylized flowers and fine stems and leaves;
[3] as [1];
[4] blue ground with one whole and 2 incomplete white ground cartouches containing inscriptions;
[5] green band which turns a right angle and runs along the right hand side of this piece - there are small red flowers of varying design alternating with small curved leaves;
Fragment of a printed and painted cotton border in six horizontal bands on a white ground, with floral and foliate ornament in red, green and blue. Two sets of cartouches contain printed inscriptions. Cartouche [4]: inscriptions on blue ground. Cartouche [6]: red foliage on green ground with inscription. A printing error is visible in the lower-right corner where a horizontal cartouche was partially printed before the vertical border was imposed.
Date: 1800-1880
Edition: Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Middle East Section)
Langue: Fa; V&A Collections
Droits: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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