Lot Essay
This carpet is one of the group of spiralling tendril and palmette
carpets which is most surely attributed to Isfahan. With its silk
wefts and fully saturated colour scheme it typifies the earliest and
best of this very large and popular group. One small feature which can be seen here and serves further to link it to the Polonaise group which were also produced in Isfahan is the inner guard stripe. With its
meandering vine separating equal panels of light blue-green and apricot containing rosettes, is is very similar to the main border design of a number of 'Polonaise' carpets including lot 50 in the sale. See the introductory chapter for a further discussion of this group of
carpets (pp.
carpets which is most surely attributed to Isfahan. With its silk
wefts and fully saturated colour scheme it typifies the earliest and
best of this very large and popular group. One small feature which can be seen here and serves further to link it to the Polonaise group which were also produced in Isfahan is the inner guard stripe. With its
meandering vine separating equal panels of light blue-green and apricot containing rosettes, is is very similar to the main border design of a number of 'Polonaise' carpets including lot 50 in the sale. See the introductory chapter for a further discussion of this group of
carpets (pp.