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Lot Essay
The PETAG workshop (Persische Teppiche Aktien Gesellschaft), was a German initiative founded in Berlin in 1911. Guided by the scholar/dealer Heinrich Jacoby (1889-1964), author of Eine Sammlung Orientalischer Teppiche, Berlin, 1923, amongst other works, a large workshop was opened in the city of Tabriz, north west Persia. Its aim was to produce carpets of the highest quality in order to combat the decline in quality encountered due to the mass production of carpets in the late 19th century. PETAG carpets are identified by their use of particularly lustrous kurk wool, natural vegetal dyes and their distinctive 'signature' formed of three çintamani roundels arranged in a triangular formation, often located in the far corner of the field or border pattern.
The design of this carpet derives from a late 17th/early 18th century Karabagh 'Dragon' carpet, the design evolution of which has been well documented by Charles Grant Ellis, Early Caucasian Rugs, Washington 1976, pp.12-16 and 32-59, and Serare Yetkin, Early Caucasion Carpets in Turkey,London, 1978, vol.II, pp.8-40. Comparable examples produced at the PETAG workshop have sold in these Rooms on 14 October 2004, lot 95 and 10 April 2008, lot 222.
The design of this carpet derives from a late 17th/early 18th century Karabagh 'Dragon' carpet, the design evolution of which has been well documented by Charles Grant Ellis, Early Caucasian Rugs, Washington 1976, pp.12-16 and 32-59, and Serare Yetkin, Early Caucasion Carpets in Turkey,London, 1978, vol.II, pp.8-40. Comparable examples produced at the PETAG workshop have sold in these Rooms on 14 October 2004, lot 95 and 10 April 2008, lot 222.