NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870

Details

A SILK HERIZ PRAYER RUG
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870
Overall very good condition
6ft.6in. x 4ft.4in. (198cm. x 133cm.)

Provenance

Andrew R. Dole, Illinois, USA
Sold Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., Massachusetts, 13 August 1970, lot 66
George Farrow, personal catalogue, 1993

Engraved

The inscription cartouche reads farmayesh 'Albin, baft Iravani - 'commissioned by Albin, woven by Iravani' - and below it the number seven

Further Details

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Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

The knot count measures approximately 8V x 9H knots per cm. sq.

A silk Heriz prayer rug of near-identical design was sold, Sotheby's New York, 24 April 2013, lot 222. It bore an identical inscription with the same name of the weaver and the patron except that at the bottom, it included the number five in the border.

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