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Lot Essay
The knot count measures approximately 9V x 9H per cm. sq.
The famed 'garden' design, with its portrayal of flowers, trees and other vegetation often with a central fountain, is one of a large number of seventeenth century designs created in South East Persia which travelled to the North West of the country in the eighteenth century. The prototype of the design is found in a carpet woven in the 'vase' technique in the royal collection in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Alberto Levi suggests that this migration of design could have been due to the social and political upheavals experienced at the beginning of the 18th century in Persia, which may have forced weavers from Kirman to relocate to Kurdistan and Azerbaijan, "Renewal and Innovation, HALI, Issue 70, pp.84-95. Both Kurt Erdmann (Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets, London, 1970, pp.66-70) and Christine Klose ("Betrachtungen zu nordwestpersischen Gartenteppichen des 18. Jahrhunderts", HALI, vol.1, no.2, (1978), p.114) discuss the development of the group.
This design continues to be used throughout the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries within various weaving capitals along the silk route with various stylistic changes, mainly being a simplification of the motifs. The present carpet is one of the later examples in the development, typified by the simplified rendering of the trees and an absence of the pool medallions.
Although this finely woven silk carpet is unsigned, the quality of weave, design and the intricate patterning suggest that this carpet was produced by one of the great masters of the Armenian 'Koum Kapi' workshops in Istanbul.
The famed 'garden' design, with its portrayal of flowers, trees and other vegetation often with a central fountain, is one of a large number of seventeenth century designs created in South East Persia which travelled to the North West of the country in the eighteenth century. The prototype of the design is found in a carpet woven in the 'vase' technique in the royal collection in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Alberto Levi suggests that this migration of design could have been due to the social and political upheavals experienced at the beginning of the 18th century in Persia, which may have forced weavers from Kirman to relocate to Kurdistan and Azerbaijan, "Renewal and Innovation, HALI, Issue 70, pp.84-95. Both Kurt Erdmann (Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets, London, 1970, pp.66-70) and Christine Klose ("Betrachtungen zu nordwestpersischen Gartenteppichen des 18. Jahrhunderts", HALI, vol.1, no.2, (1978), p.114) discuss the development of the group.
This design continues to be used throughout the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries within various weaving capitals along the silk route with various stylistic changes, mainly being a simplification of the motifs. The present carpet is one of the later examples in the development, typified by the simplified rendering of the trees and an absence of the pool medallions.
Although this finely woven silk carpet is unsigned, the quality of weave, design and the intricate patterning suggest that this carpet was produced by one of the great masters of the Armenian 'Koum Kapi' workshops in Istanbul.