CENTRAL PERSIA, MID 17TH CENTURY

The border of this example, with large colourful palmettes alternating with an arrangement of five smaller blossoms on a scrolling vine, is similar in its conception to that of the Benguiat sprial-vine carpet in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, attributed to the first half of the seventeenth century (Friedrich Spuhler, The Thyssen-Bornemisza collection: Carpets and Textiles, London, 1998, p.108, no.23). Like that carpet, our fragment has dominant cloud-bands in the field. A complete - albeit worn - carpet of similar design was sold in these Rooms, 28 October 2020, lot 177, after a large fragment also sold, 18 October 2016, lot 49.