Lot Essay
See introductory chapter for a discussion of this group of carpets (pp. ). An example with an almost identical palmette and cloudband border was sold in these Rooms, 19 October 1995, lot 483.
Details
AN ISFAHAN CARPET
CENTRAL PERSIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY
The burgundy field with a counterposed design of light blue scrolling palmette and flowering vine linking large palmettes and cloudband, in a deep green border of tendrils linking large palmettes alternating with cloudband motifs between inner polychrome interlocking leaf-motif and outer burgundy floral meander stripes, even wear, small areas of flatwoven stitching, small holes, ends slightly tattered and with small splits, sides overcast, outer guard stripe with slight loss
Approximately 13ft.8in. x 5ft.11in. (416cm. x 180cm.)
Warp:white cotton, Z4S, slightly undulating and depressed
Weft: white cotton, Z2S
Pile: wool, Z2, asymmetrical open to the left, H4.4 x V 4.1/cm.
Ends: flat woven in red, white, green, yellow and black (no black at top end)
CENTRAL PERSIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY
The burgundy field with a counterposed design of light blue scrolling palmette and flowering vine linking large palmettes and cloudband, in a deep green border of tendrils linking large palmettes alternating with cloudband motifs between inner polychrome interlocking leaf-motif and outer burgundy floral meander stripes, even wear, small areas of flatwoven stitching, small holes, ends slightly tattered and with small splits, sides overcast, outer guard stripe with slight loss
Approximately 13ft.8in. x 5ft.11in. (416cm. x 180cm.)
Warp:white cotton, Z4S, slightly undulating and depressed
Weft: white cotton, Z2S
Pile: wool, Z2, asymmetrical open to the left, H4.4 x V 4.1/cm.
Ends: flat woven in red, white, green, yellow and black (no black at top end)
Literature
Persische Teppiche, Museum fr Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg Museum fr Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1971, no. 9 (ill.).