SIGNED H. KAPOUDJIAN, CIRCA 1930

Finely-executed, this drawing not only indicates Hagop's skills as a draughtsman but also the way in which he was shaped by the scholarly study of carpets. It was drawn on a piece of paper, the reverse of which has an image of a Qianlong period silk lampas, hanging examples of which are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Chester Beatty Library and the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyons. On the face of the drawing, is the imprint of the cover of Carl Hopf, Die Altpersischen Teppiche, Munich, 1913, a volume which would have provided further inspiration and instruction of the wider carpet field.