SULTANABAD DISTRICT, WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880

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A ZIEGLER CARPET
Sultanabad District, West Persia, circa 1880
The shaded sky-blue field with an overall design of serrated leaves linked by bold palmettes forming lozenges containing floral sprays and issuing further bold scrolling floral tendrils, in a shaded brick-red palmette and floral spray border between ivory and oatmeal floral meander stripes, inner reciprocal stripe, a short kilim strip and braided warps at each end, corroded light brown, stain one end from storage heater, generally good pile
19ft. x 17ft. (579cm. x 518cm.)

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Lot Essay

A very similar Ziegler carpet whose field was also woven on a light blue ground, but which had been reduced in width, was sold in our New York salerooms, 18 December 2001, lot 50. The design for that carpet contained identical medallions, but arranged in a vertical column more appropriate to the width of that carpet, rather than the diagonally placed arrangement seen here. The slightly crude junction in that carpet between each of the modules, notably with one leaf whose upper section extends into the tip of its mirror image across this line, shows the present arrangement to have been the original. The use of such a shortcut in Ziegler's cartoon designs gives us a small insight into the company's working practices.

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