CENTRAL PERSIA, 17TH CENTURY

Details

AN ISFAHAN CARPET
Central Persia, 17th Century
Approximately 28 ft. (853 cm.) x 11 ft. 7 in. (353 cm.)

Provenance

Acquired from Vitall Benguiat, New York.
William A. Clark, New York.

Literature

Illustrated Handbook of The W.A. Clark Collection, Washington, D.C., 1928, p. 73.
W.J. Showalter, 'Virginia - A Commonwealth That Has Come Back', The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. LV, No. 4, April 1929, pl XIII.
'Carpets for the Great Shah', The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin, Vol 2, No. 1, October 1948, p. 16, no. P15.
L. Coyle, and D. M. Hartwell, Antiquities to Impressionism: The William A. Clark Collection Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2001, p. 36, fig. 25.

Exhibited

Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Carpets for the Great Shah, 3 October-16 November, 1948, no. P15.

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Lot Essay

While the field of the present lot is a nearly three-dimensional display of palmettes, cloud bands, rosettes and undulating vinery, the major border balances this movement with its linear bracket-leaf and palmette format. The entire composition of the carpet is very similar to that of lots 31 and 129 suggesting that they are from the same workshop. The inner guard border of reciprocal S-cloud bands is also seen on lot 203.

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