Lot Essay
See introductory chapter for a discussion of this group of carpets (pp.
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AN ISFAHAN CARPET
CENTRAL PERSIA, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The shaded plum-red and dusty pink field with a counterposed design of scrolling palmette tendrils linking large palmettes, scrolling leaves and cloudband, in a broad indigo border of similar motifs between light blue and raspberry-red angular flowering vine stripes, extensively repiled, cut and joined, probably originally slightly larger, areas of repair
Approximately 18ft.6in. x 8ft.3in. (562cm. x 251cm.)
Warp: white cotton, Z4S, slightly undulating and depressed,
Weft: 3 shoots, white cotton, Z2S
Pile: wool, Z3S, the blue Z2S, asymmetrical open to the left, H4.4 x V4.6
CENTRAL PERSIA, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The shaded plum-red and dusty pink field with a counterposed design of scrolling palmette tendrils linking large palmettes, scrolling leaves and cloudband, in a broad indigo border of similar motifs between light blue and raspberry-red angular flowering vine stripes, extensively repiled, cut and joined, probably originally slightly larger, areas of repair
Approximately 18ft.6in. x 8ft.3in. (562cm. x 251cm.)
Warp: white cotton, Z4S, slightly undulating and depressed,
Weft: 3 shoots, white cotton, Z2S
Pile: wool, Z3S, the blue Z2S, asymmetrical open to the left, H4.4 x V4.6
Literature
Alte Teppiche des 16.-18.Jahrhunderts der Firma L.Bernheimer, Munich, 1959, pl.68