Persian Carpet Polonaise

Antique polonaise rugs embellished with threads in precious metals antique polonaise rugs are among the most elegant and lavish of the court productions made under the safavid dynasty in iran during the seventeenth century.

Persian carpet polonaise.

A persian carpet persian. The persian designs were joined by european motifs and the carpets even showed the crests of the rulers. قالی ايرانى romanized. At our retail store in durham you ll find an inventory of over 7000 handmade rugs an extensive variety of styles sizes designs colors and textures.

Sabatini polonaise carpets in baroque rome oriental carpet textile studies vii icoc 2011 pp 100 fig 1. High quality handmade oriental rugs. In fact these carpets were made in iran and shipped abroad in large numbers. Though polonaise carpets are relatively common the design of overlapping cartouches seen here is rare.

He reconstructed thecolors most of which had faded added his own motifs and use the antique finishing process as well as typical jan kath signatures to add. Qâli ye irâni ɢɒːˈliːje ʔiːɾɒːˈniː also known as iranian carpet is a heavy textile made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes and produced in iran historically known as persia for home. فرش ايرانى romanized. Polonaise carpets are renowned for their elegance and classic beauty.

In this rug soft luminescent tones are complemented with highlights of silver metallic thread that enhance sinuous vegetation and a variety of distinctly persian field designs. A carpet with a very similar field design and the same coloured reciprocal border can be seen in the museo nazionale del palazzo de venezia rome gifted by a mrs henrietta tower wurts in 1933 i. Large numbers of these antique rugs were exported to poland where they were highly prized by the aristocracy at a. Farš e irâni ˈfærʃe ʔiːɾɒːˈniː or persian rug persian.

Many were also brought to europe by persian embassies as gifts from the shahs and some were commissioned in iran by visiting europeans. Polonaise carpet also called polish carpet any of various handwoven floor coverings with pile of silk made in eṣfahān and other weaving centres of persia in the late 16th and 17th centuries at first for court use and then commercially because the first examples of this type to be exhibited publicly in europe in the 19th century had come from polish sources it was assumed that these. Express yourself at the persian carpet purveyors of the finest and most diverse range of oriental rugs in the carolinas for more than forty years. While this piece is a pastiche it retains much of its integrity of design.