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A KIRMAN 'VASE' CARPET FRAGMENT
SOUTH EAST PERSIA, 17TH CENTURY

The wine-red field with a triple overlaid lattice of yellow, light and dark blue tendrils linking a variety of large palmettes, the interstices filled with a variety of flowering plants, in an indigo interlaced arabesque border between ivory meandering flowering vine and reciprocal trefoil stripes, fragmentary, holed, worn, extensively tinted) backed
Approximately 2ft. x 8ft.4in. (61cm. x 253cm.)

Warp: white cotton, Z4S, slightly undulating, clearly depressed
Weft: 3 shoots; 1 and 3 light brown wool, Z2S, slightly undulating; 2 white and ivory cotton, Z2S, strongly undulating
Pile: wool, Z2, asymmetrical open to the left, H5.7 x V3.7/cm.
Provenance
Acquired 12 October 1927 as an "Ispahan Fragment" for DM374

Lot Essay

This fragment represents the entire width of a vase carpet of the most frequently encountered type. The red field is designed with three ogival lattices, each interlaced with the others. Here two are easy to distinguish, one being light blue; the other, dark. The only trace of the third is the vertical central double ivory line, together with the tendrils clinging to the border stripes at each side.

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