Lot 278
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A JOSHAGAN CARPET
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JANICE NEWMAN ROSENTHAL (LOT 278)
A JOSHAGAN CARPET

CENTRAL PERSIA, DATED AH 1302 1884-85 AD

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A JOSHAGAN CARPET
CENTRAL PERSIA, DATED AH 1302 1884-85 AD
With a cartouche inscription stating that the carpet was commissioned for Sepahsalar A'zam in the year 1302, made by the master weaver Hajji Muhammad Husqani (?)
Approximately 24 ft. 8 in. x 12 ft. 1 in. (752 cm. x 368 cm.)

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Sepahsalar A'zam was the leader of the constitutionalist revolutionary forces from Iran's northern provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran during the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905 -1911. This revolution led to the establishment of parliament and seemed to open Persia up to all the promise of modernity. Sepahsalar A'zam, a member of the royal Khalatbari family, fought against attempts to continue the monarchy as well as the religious clerics' attempts to create a theocracy. He was one of Persia's greatest statesmen and military commanders as well as its wealthiest nobleman.

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