Hamadan Prayer Rug
Category
Carpets, rugs and mats
Date
1920 - 1939
Materials
Cloth, Cotton, Wool
Measurements
2015 mm (W)1060 mm (D)
Place of origin
Hamadan
Order this imageCollection
Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire
NT 1651445
Summary
Hamadan prayer rug. Thick, long wool pile, cotton ground. Stylised palmettes/rosettes, geometric borders. Mute colour.
Provenance
Collection William R. Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, by bequest to Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1963, by transfer to National Trust, Nuffield Place, 2011.
Marks and inscriptions
handwritten ; on cloth label underneath ; 33/87 208 23517 ; in ink ;