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JBOC Note:
Sale Title ORIENTAL RUGS AND
CARPETS
Location London, King Street Sale Date Oct 13, 2005
Lot Number 75 Sale Number 7078
Creator NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870
Lot Title A FINE SILK HERIZ RUG
Estimate 25,000 - 35,000 British pounds
Special Notice VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's
premium.
Lot Description A FINE SILK HERIZ RUG
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870
Overall excellent condition
6ft.1in. x 4ft.9in. (185cm. x 143cm.)
Lot Notes The knot count is 14H x 9V per cm. sq.
The movement of designs from seventeenth century Kirman to eighteenth
century North West Persian carpets is well documented, and the reasons
well-rehearsed. Many eighteenth century wool carpets display designs
taken, sometimes loosely and sometimes very closely from the Kirman
originals. A very good comparison is given by a carpet in the Burns
Collection with its prototype now in the Metropolitan Museum (James D.
Burns, Antique Rugs of Kurdistan, London, 2002, no.34, pp.126-7; Joseph
V. McMullen, Islamic Carpets, New York, 1965, no.17, pp.84-5).
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