Lot Essay
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AN ISFAHAN CARPET
CENTRAL PERSIA, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The mottled wine red field with a counterposed design of scrolling palmette and flowering vine linking large palmettes with cloudband, in a broad indigo border of scrolling palmette vine around large similar motifs between light blue and apricot angular flowering vine and minor stripes, extensive repiling, selvages rebound and slightly ragged ends with slight loss of outer guard stripe, areas of repair, reduced in length
Approximately 11ft.10in. x 9ft. (360cm. x 274cm.)
Warp: white cotton, Z4S
Weft: 3 shoots, reddish cotton, Z4S, second shoot, Z2S
Pile: wool, Z2-4, the yellow Z2 alone, asymmetrical open to the left, H4.5 x V4.2
CENTRAL PERSIA, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The mottled wine red field with a counterposed design of scrolling palmette and flowering vine linking large palmettes with cloudband, in a broad indigo border of scrolling palmette vine around large similar motifs between light blue and apricot angular flowering vine and minor stripes, extensive repiling, selvages rebound and slightly ragged ends with slight loss of outer guard stripe, areas of repair, reduced in length
Approximately 11ft.10in. x 9ft. (360cm. x 274cm.)
Warp: white cotton, Z4S
Weft: 3 shoots, reddish cotton, Z4S, second shoot, Z2S
Pile: wool, Z2-4, the yellow Z2 alone, asymmetrical open to the left, H4.5 x V4.2
Provenance
Acquired 9 August 1937 as a "Perser"