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View full screenCarpet, silk, woven in different colours with a blossoming tree, two flower vases and cartouches with an inscription: West Asia, Iran, Kashan, by Hajji Mullah Muhammad Hasan Mohtasham, 1850 - 1860
A.1899.280
Mohtasham, Muhammad Hasan, Hajji Mullah, 1840 - 1890 (fl.), Weaver
Kashan, Iran, West Asia
1850 - 1860
Qajar period
Carpet, silk, woven with a symmetrical pattern of a tree with varied flowers underneath an arch, flanked by two large flower vases; the field framed by a wide border and guard stripes; in the spandrels two cartouches with the signature of the weaver; top and bottom a fringe. There are at least fifteen different colours used in its pattern.
Within the Middle East (12 May 1995)
Royal Museum of Scotland
Voigt, Friederike. “’A place where eternally blossoming roses grow’: The garden in Iranian textiles”, Journal of the Oriental Rug and Textile Society, 4 (2), Summer 2021, pp. 4-9 and fig. 11.
Scarce, Jennifer M., Domestic culture in the Middle East : An exploration of the household interior, Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland, 1996