Oriental carpets, runners and rugs and some Jacquard reproductions .. (1910)
Humphries, Sydney, 1862-1941 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 352
he orientals, onthe other hand, accepted him as an absolute monarch, nay, as littleshort of a deity (the italics are mine), to whom they readily gave thehomage of adoration. I have had occasion to refer to the symbolism of the Horse-shoe and Cloud Forms in the Ardebil Carpet, instancing… … Carpets Runners and Rugs charger Bucephalus, and that this fact accounted for the symbol ofhis warrior soul, and his divine origin, which is the leading featurein the carpet in question, and innumerable others probably whichhave perished, while being as the flames from which the ArdebilPhoenix…
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834 · `Abbas I, Shah of Iran, 1571-1629 · Rugs, Oriental
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