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Oriental rug

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1875-1925

GUSN

GUSN-7670

Description

Tan or light brown field with red, blue, black and cream. Abstracted cruciform shapes around extended diamond-form guls. Minor guls are abstracted quatrefoils. Paired guard borders flank wide diagonally striped border.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Oriental rugs
fringe
goat hair
wool (textile)
cruciform
güls
lozenges
geometric patterns
quatrefoils
stripes
Wool
Hair
Tribal
Cruciform
Gul
Quatrefoil
Striped
Fringe
Geometric
RUG

Associated Building

Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

48.875 (W) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan

Accession Number

1949.1007

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