A NORTH WEST PERSIAN LATTICE CARPET

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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN LATTICE CARPET
LATE 18TH CENTURY

The indigo field with a lozenge lattice formed of serrated red leaves enclosing panels with a variety of flowering plants and trees, in a blood-red border of meandering leafy vine intertwined with a floral meander between ivory meandering floral stripes, reduced in length, areas of repair and repiling, outer guard stripe reduced, areas of wear, end borders made up from fragments of the original, backed
Approximately 12ft.4in. x 10ft.3in. (367cm. x 312cm.)

Warp: white wool, Z2S, 1 strand white, 1 strand ivory, not depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: 2 shoots, undulating, fine wool, probably goat, 2 x S1 yellow and apricot, 1 x S1 apricot; wool, Z2S red; wool, Z2, 1 strand apricot and 1 pale violet
Pile: wool, Z2-4, the red and green Z3, yellow Z4; fine wool, probably goat, S2-4, yellow-green, symmetrical inclining to the right, H2.2 x V2.6/cm.
Remarks: displaced knotting

Provenance

Acquired 20 December 1927 as a "Tschandschagan (Blutenstaubenteppich)" for DM500

Exhibited

Ausstellung Orient-Teppiche, Museum fr Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1950, no.105, pp.88-89, pl.26

Lot Essay

The Floral lattice designs were originally found in 'vase' carpets of South East Persia and were translated between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to North West Persia. The same development had happened with 'garden' design carpets (Lot 121). The red wefting of the present example makes any provenance other than North West Persia unlikely. Yet the design is remarkably close in concept to carpets such as a fragment in the Kunstmuseum, Dsseldorf (Beattie, May H.: Carpets of Central Persia, no.55, p.80). Of the eighteenth century examples Erdmann notes five other in his 1950 catalogue entry on this piece.

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