British museum carpets.
He later became director of the royal scottish museum in edinburgh.
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Around 30 years later the shrine suffered an earthquake and the carpet was sold to a manchester carpet firm who in turn put it up for sale in 1892.
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The museum of applied art has a valuable collection of ca.
Murdoch smith continued to act as the museum s agent until he returned to his native scotland in 1887.
120 carpets from pirot dating to the late 18th to the mid 20th century.
Collection online has been completely redeveloped making it much easier to find what you want.
The ardabil carpet or ardebil carpet is the name of two different famous persian carpets the largest and best known now in the victoria and albert museum in london.
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The british museum was founded in 1753 with a collection of more than 80 000 natural and artificial rarities over 40 000 books and manuscripts and 32 000 coins and medals.
Since then the collection has grown.
Victoria and albert museum london the carpet was still in the shrine of shaykh safi al din in 1843 where it was seen by british visitors.
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The ethnographic museum belgrade has a small collection of carpets on display.