Oriental rugs, antique and modern . ing, and colouring display a highgrade of artistic craftsmanship. Another of similar character isrepresented in the Vienna Publication of Oriental Carpets of 1889,at which time it belonged to the Countess Clotilde Clam-Gallas ofVienna; and a third belongs to the Palais de Commerce at Lyons. In no other rugs from Iran is the effect of Mongolian traditionon design more noticeable; but that this was due to the Timuridinvasion at the end of the XIV Century is doubtful, and it is notimprobable that more immediate intervention with China deter-mined the motives. N
Oriental rugs, antique and modern . ing, and colouring display a highgrade of artistic craftsmanship. Another of similar character isrepresented in the Vienna Publication of Oriental Carpets of 1889,at which time it belonged to the Countess Clotilde Clam-Gallas ofVienna; and a third belongs to the Palais de Commerce at Lyons. In no other rugs from Iran is the effect of Mongolian traditionon design more noticeable; but that this was due to the Timuridinvasion at the end of the XIV Century is doubtful, and it is notimprobable that more immediate intervention with China deter-mined the motives. Nor is the Saracenic influence obscured, sincein every part of the field and border is seen the perfect rhythm ofgraceful arabesques. Such carpets represent, in fact, the transi-tion from those earlier pieces to the higher products of Persianlooms. One of the simplest ways of studying the pattern is to regardit as consisting of a number of units formed by a large roundedoctagon encircled by eight heart-shaped escutcheons, and with a. Plate 17. So-called Polish or Polonaise Carpet est the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York EARLY RUG WEAVING 81 smaller rounded octagon at the centre of the diagonal lines con-necting them. On the large octagons, which are of dark blue crossedby narrow bands of sable brown, is represented the fight of dragonand phoenix so common in the ornamentation of the Ming dynasty;and in the smaller octagons, which are plum colour, are four runninglions in red, blue, and green. The eight escutcheons alternate incrimson and blue, and have arabesques and Chinese ducks. Thelarge pentagonal-shaped areas of the ivory field are covered with amost symmetrically drawn tracery of tendrils and flowers in red,yellow, and blue; and in the smaller hexagonal-shaped areas arecloud bands of similar colours. The border shows a marked advance over that of the precedingpiece. The main stripe, which follows a pattern that with slightmodification is adopted in many of the carpets
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