Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• decorative arts • textiles •
Islamic art
*Work
Type [link]: •
carpet
*Title: Ardabil
Carpet
*Creator
Display: Maqsud of Kashan (Persian,
active in 16th century)
*Role
[link]: designer [link]:
Maqsud of Kashan
*Creation
Date: 946 anno Hegirae (1540 CE) [controlled]: •
Earliest: 1540 • Latest:
1540
*Subject
[links]: •
object (utilitarian) • religion and mythology
• worship • lamps (lighting
devices) • medallions (ornament areas)
• Hafiz (Persian poet, 1325-1389), The
Divan
Style [link]:
• Persian (culture) • Safavid Dynasty
(Iranian Islamic style) • Tabriz
Culture [link]:
• Persian
*Current
Location [link]: Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, California,
United States) • ID:
53.50.2
Former Location
[link]: Safi-ud-din Mosque (Ardabil, Iran)
*Measurements:
718.82 x 396.24 cm (283 x 156 inches); knot density
around 325 knots per square inch
[controlled]: •
Value: 718.82 Unit:
cm Type: height
| • Value: 396.24
Unit: cm
Type: width | Extent:
knot density per square inch •
Value: 325
Type: count
*Materials
and Techniques: pile is wool, in places
both wool and silk; warp and weft are of cotton;
knots are Turkish Ghiordes (symmetrical knots);
outer border has been replaced
Material [links]: •
wool • cotton • silk
thread Technique
[links]: • weaving • symmetrical
knots
Inscriptions: signed
by Maqsud of Kashan, dated 946 A.H. Inscribed with
Persian couplet from The Divan, by the fourteenth-century
lyrical poet Hafiz: [I have no refuge in this world
other than thy threshold; My head has no resting
place other than this doorway].
Description: Design
includes a central medallion with radiating pendants;
quarter medallions repeated in the corners; unique
design element seen in the lamps projecting from
the top and bottom of the central medallion; designs
are set against a dense field of flowers that grow
from scrolling leafy vines. This large carpet and
its nearly identical mate, now in London, were made
for the mosque of Safi-ud-din in Ardabil, which
is the holiest of Persian religious shrines. Since
the artist was from Kashan, the carpet was probably
actually produced there, and not made in Ardabil,
which produces a different style of carpet. In this
carpet, the central medallion with radiating pendants
was ultimately derived from contemporary and earlier
bookbinding and manuscript illumination.
Description Source
[link]: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
online. www.lacma.org
(accessed 06 July 2007)
• Scott, Philippa, "Carpets in the Victoria
and Albert Museum," Apollo, Nov, 2003.
Related Works:
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Relationship
Type [controlled]: mate
of
[link
to Work Record]: Ardabil Carpet; Maqsud
of Kashan; 1540; Victoria
and Albert Museum (London, England); ID:
272-1893
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Required and recommended elements
are marked with an asterisk.
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