JBOC Note:

Sale Title ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS


Location London, King Street Sale Date Oct 13, 2005
Lot Number 103 Sale Number 7078
Creator FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

Lot Title A NORTH WEST PERSIAN RUG

Estimate 15,000 - 20,000 British pounds
Lot Description A NORTH WEST PERSIAN RUG
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Full pile throughout, small repair in centre, overall very good condition
6ft.4in. x 5ft.3in. (192cm. x 159cm.)

Lot Notes There is a small group of rugs with diagonal lozenge fields coupled with the same spandrels as are found here. Some also have a central medallion of the same design as the spandrels. One example in the Carpet Museum, Tehran, attributed to the Bakhtiari, bears the date 1231 (1816-17 AD) (Hali vol.1, no.1, p.45). Related examples sold at Christie's include one from The Adam Clayton Collection, South Kensington, 10 November 2004, lot 387, the note to which gives further examples.

The format seen here is also encountered in silk. One example was exhibited in Austria with very similar aesthetic to the present rug (Antique Oriental Carpets from Austrian Collections, Vienna, 1986, no.68) while one on a light blue ground was in Germany (Eberhart Herrmann, Seltene Orientteppiche, IV, Munich, 1982, no.68, pp.198-9).

The present rug unusually is woven with blue cotton wefts, mostly at two shoots between each row of knots but occasionally three. Another feature which is in contrast to almost all the others is that the design is woven to be seen from both directions. This is a feature which is generally associated with Indian lattice carpets rather than Persian. This, coupled with the drawing of the individual floral sprays indicates a probable direct influence from a Mughal carpet overlaying the more usually encountered influence from seventeenth century Kirman lattice carpets.

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