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  • Number 1753

  • Type Workshop

  • Material Wool

  • Style Medallion

  • Origin Senneh

  • Size 94 x 66

  • Age 1285 (1867)

Story

A major historical document, this incredibly fine Senneh was woven sideways and bears a very important inscription:

ูุฑู…ุงูŠุด ู†ูˆุงุจ ู…ุนุชู…ุฏ ุงู„ุฏูˆู„ุฉ ุฏุงู… ุงู‚ุจุงู„ู‡ ูกูขูจูฅ

๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ข๐™ข๐™ž๐™จ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š๐™™ ๐™—๐™ฎ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™‘๐™ž๐™˜๐™š๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฎ ๐™ˆ๐™ค'๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ข๐™š๐™™ ๐˜ผ๐™ก-๐˜ฟ๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™ก๐™š๐™, ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™ค๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง, ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ฎ๐™š๐™–๐™ง 1285

As I explain in the catalog accompanying the Louvre exhibition ๐‹'๐„๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฌ ๐‘๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ, Farhad Mirza (Mo'tamed Al-Dowleh) was Nassereddine Shah Qajar's brother and a ferocious military general. He was entrusted in 1867 with reconquering the Ardalan Principality which had grown too autonomous from the Qajar court. He marched into the provincial capital of Senneh and brought the province of Kurdistan back into Persian sway. This carpet -- as well as the XXL flowery masterpiece I exhibited at the Louvre -- was created by his order as a triumphal monument, a woven statement of conquest and power. The year it was woven in corresponds to that.

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