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Covering nearly the entire floor of the Neill-Cochran House Museum French Parlor is a 130in x 200in Persian rug made ca.1920. It has a cotton base and Kashmiri wool pile dyed with vegetable dye in muted rose, tan, gray, blue, and green colors. The rug is of high quality and tightly woven with 260 Persian knots/square inch.
The pattern for this rug developed during the regency of Shah Abbas I (1571-1629). The Shah, commonly known as Abbas the Great, was a famous patron of the arts and the principal monarch of the Safavid Dynasty. Shah Abbas designs, very common in Kashan oriental rugs, contain a series of curvilinear floral forms, creating a garden-like background modeled after the Royal Garden of Kashan, known as the Garden of Paradise. The patterns contain arabesques and flower-stems, palmettos, rosettes, and blossom and leaf motifs in dense patterns of floral ornamentation.
This Persian rug was gifted to the Neill-Cochran House Museum Collection by Mrs. Leonidas T. Barrow. You can see it, and all of our magical artifacts, Wed-Sun, 11-4pm.Acquisition
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1959.01Source or Donor
Mrs. Leonidas T. Barrow (Laura Thomson)Acquisition Method
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In Mem of donor's mother, Laura Driscoll Thomson (Mrs. Henry D.) of San Antonio