Lot 188
188
A KARABAGH CARPET

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A KARABAGH CARPET
SOUTH CAUCASUS, 18TH CENTURY

The brick-red field with an afshan design of three columns of rosettes and flowerheads divided by columns of palmettes issuing split palmettes and linked by serrated leafy vine, in a broad sandy yellow border with palmette vine flanking large brown cartouches containing similar motifs divided by light blue cruciform roundels between ivory chequered and narrow plain stripes, even wear, extensive repair and repiling, reduced, corroded brown
Approximately 13ft.1in. x 7ft.10in. (399cm. x 238cm.)

Warp: wool, light brown, 1 strand ivory with 1 strand brown or 1 strand ivory with 1 strand light brown, depressed, sometimes considerably, lightly undulating
Weft: 2 shoots, light brown wool, Z2S sometimes Z3-4S, first lightly undulating, second strongly undulating
Pile: wool, Z2S, symmetrical inclining to the left, H2.8 x V3.1/cm.
Provenance
Shefik Pasha Collection, sold Lepke, 14 April 1931, lot 209.
Acquired 9 April 1938 as a "Kuba 18 Jahrhundert" for DM1,130
Exhibited
Ausstellung Orient-Teppiche, Museum fr Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1950, no.116, pp.97-98, pl.41.

Lot Essay

While the Afshan design of the field is one of the most favoured of all Caucasian eighteenth (and nineteenth) century designs, the border has a greater breadth and clarity than is normally encountered. This makes it probable that the present carpet is one of the earlier examples of the group.

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