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Notes: Baluch Rugs
Attribution: Afshar of the Qainate Arab
tribes
Provenance: Qainate, Khorassan, east Iran
Function: rug, possibly a latent prayer rug
Date: Circa 1870
Size: 1.06 x 1.65m (3'6" x 5'5")
Materials: wool and camel
Technique: pile, asymmetrical knot open right
Conditon: missing the kilim end and several rows
of knot at the bottom end and most of the kilim
end at the top. The pile is in fair to good
condition but low in the corrosive areas.
Comments: Popular thought has the Afshar tribe
vacating Khorassan after the blinding and
subsequent murder of Nadir Shah's nephew, the
governor of Khorassan Shah Rokh, around 1790. A
number of weavings, executed in the Khorassan
('Belouch') style containing characteristics of
the Qainate Arabs and the Timuris of Khaf suggest
that this exodus was not total.
This particular rug is an example of the
vestigial remains of Khorassan Afshar clans.
Though double ended, the emphasis effected by the
scale and proliferation of iconography at the
bottom end lends directionality and suggests this
this rug served as a prayer rug.
The "tree" on camel field seen in this
rug conforms with what we know to be
"Belouch" but the similiarity quickly
ends when we examine the specific motifs, the
weave, and the palette. The wide primary border
(detail 3 and weave detail) is common with Arab
Belouch work but the minor borders (detail 3),
corner elements (detail 2), and depressed warp
weave are Afshar in nature. The camel hair ground
figure patterning in this rug is interesting and
unusual.
Seen on www.gallery-arabesque.com
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