Persian Carpet Polonaise

Though polonaise carpets are relatively common the design of overlapping cartouches seen here is rare.

Persian carpet polonaise.

High quality handmade oriental rugs. 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. Farš e irâni ˈfærʃe ʔiːɾɒːˈniː or persian rug persian. The most beautiful of these inspired jan kath to create his polonaise collection.

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. Sabatini polonaise carpets in baroque rome oriental carpet textile studies vii icoc 2011 pp 100 fig 1. 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. Polonaise carpets are renowned for their elegance and classic beauty.

Carpets of indo persian design were introduced to europe via the dutch british and french east india companies of the 17th and 18th century and in the polish lithuanian commonwealth by armenian merchants polish carpets or polonaise carpets. Antique plolonaise rugs and early persian carpets. The persian designs were joined by european motifs and the carpets even showed the crests of the rulers. 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.

فرش ايرانى romanized. While this piece is a pastiche it retains much of its integrity of design. قالی ايرانى romanized. In fact these carpets were made in iran and shipped abroad in large numbers.

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. 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. 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. 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.