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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.
Seen on www.Christies.com
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