'Chessboard' Carpet

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 460

The field of the so-called "Chessboard" carpet is usually applied on a vermillion ground and divided into rectangular compartments, each containing an eight-pointed star composed of an endless knot of interlaced bands. The stars are encircled by small abstract radiating trefoil ornaments resembling fleur-de-lys, cypresses, and rosettes. On the large border that frames the central compartments of this design, poly-lobed lozengelike medallions alternate with cartouches. Stylized fleur-de-lys fill these motifs as well as the blue-green background.

'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile

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'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
'Chessboard' Carpet, Animal hair (warp and pile), wool (weft); asymmetrically knotted pile

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