A FEREGHAN CARPET

SOUTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1850

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A FEREGHAN CARPET
SOUTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1850
The shaded indigo field scattered with angular flowerheads, birds, angular floral spays and S-motifs around horizontal rows of golden yellow linked hooked panels each containing indigo floral cruciforms divided by brick red split-palmettes, brick-red and green angular spandrels, in a shaded brick-red border of polychrome rosettes and angular palmette and leafy vine between ivory flowering vine stripes, slight overall wear, two splits at each end, damage in each corner
12ft. x 6ft.4in. (366cm. x 193cm.)

拍品專文

A fragment of the field of a very similar but slightly earlier carpet, dated to the 18th century and attributed to North West Persia or Kurdistan, is published in Spuhler, F., König, H. and Volkmann, M.: Alte Orientteppiche -- Meisterstücke aus deutschen Privatsammlungen, Munich, 1978, no.35, pp.100-101.