A SILK AND COTTON TABRIZ RUG

NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890

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A SILK AND COTTON TABRIZ RUG
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The cafe-au-lait cotton field with scrolling leafy tendrils issuing palmettes around a cusped ivory medallion containing similar motifs with pendants, the ivory spandrels with arabesque panels issuing floral tendrils, in a shaded lemon-yellow border of turtle-palmettes and flowering vine between ice-blue floral meander stripes, a signature cartouche at one end surmounted by the Qajar crown, a short kilim strip at each end, very slight damage and repair to selvages
5ft.6in. x 4ft.1in. (168cm. x 124cm.)

拍品專文

The inscription cartouche reads "Bezadran Hadji Baba .............. Number 9".
The use of extensive areas of cotton pile in North West Persian silk rugs is an extremely rare feature. The present example increases the counterpoint between the two materials by having silk motifs on cotton ground within the field contrasting with cotton turtle-palmettes on a silk ground in the border.