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Medallion Oushak Carpet (in five pieces): Central royal blue medallion containing arabesques and vines, flanked by lobbed half medallions on a brick red arabesque, vine and carnation-filled field, within a royal blue palmette-filled border
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The central medallion is blue ground; the field is red and is filled with a beautifully drawn blue floral arabesque. Wool warp, wool wefts, and symmetrical wool knots.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Annewies van den Hoek and John Herrmann
Title: Medallion Oushak Carpet (in five pieces): Central royal blue medallion containing arabesques and vines, flanked by lobbed half medallions on a brick red arabesque, vine and carnation-filled field, within a royal blue palmette-filled border
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The central medallion is blue ground; the field is red and is filled with a beautifully drawn blue floral arabesque.
Wool warp, wool wefts, and symmetrical wool knots.
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