A NORTH WEST PERSIAN FRAGMENTARY GARDEN CARPET

SECOND HALF, 18TH CENTURY

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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN FRAGMENTARY GARDEN CARPET
SECOND HALF, 18TH CENTURY
The shaded blue field with polychrome angular flowers around four columns of ivory, shaded brown and blue square garden panels each containing a bold angular vine issuing flowerheads and three stylised streams, two terminating in a brick-red octagonal garden panels each containing flowerhead issuing at each side further stylised streams, in a brick-red border of flowerheads linked by angular vine between ivory flowerhead stem and plain stripes, reduced in size, areas of old repair, localised wear and corrosion
10ft.6in. x 10ft. (320cm. x 305cm.)

Provenance

Mr and Mrs Reginald Toms, sold Sotheby's London 7th June 1995, lot 130

Lot Essay

The 'garden' design is one of a large number of seventeenth century designs created in south east Persia which travelled to the north west of the country in the eighteenth. The prototype of the design can be seen in a carpet woven in the 'vase' technique in the royal collection in Jaipur. Both Kurt Erdmann (Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets, London, 1970, pp.66-70) and Christine Klose ('Betrachtungen zu nordwestpersischen Gartenteppichen des 18. Jahrhunderts', HALI, vol.1, no.2, (1978), p.114) discuss the development of the group. The present carpet is one of the later examples in the development, typified by the lack of birds among the trees, and the simplfied rendering of the trees and pool medallions.

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