Lot Essay
This Garrus rug is one of a small number of closely related known examples woven in a small district of north west Persia during the late 19th and early 20th century. It bears the date AH 1213, the original date having been altered from AH 1313/1895 AD. Another example from this group was sold in these Rooms 24th April 1997, lot 477. Although the previous example was originally dated six years earlier the second figure of the date had been similarly altered. The most famous of the group has had a similar alteration, the example formerly in the McMullen Collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York which was originally dated four years before the present rug (McMullen, Joseph V.: Islamic Carpets, New York, 1965, no.22, pp.92-3).
This group of rugs are consistent in their design with a blue field and overall polychrome floral design, a brick-red border and are dated or inscribed. They have a tendency to stiffness in structure making them difficult to fold resulting from the density of the weaving. The other examples, are described in detail by Anette Ittig ('A group of Inscribed Carpets from Persian Kurdistan', HALI, vol.4, no.2, 1981, pp.124-127).
The rug offered here differs from most of the group in that it is smaller in size and has silk pile highlights.
This group of rugs are consistent in their design with a blue field and overall polychrome floral design, a brick-red border and are dated or inscribed. They have a tendency to stiffness in structure making them difficult to fold resulting from the density of the weaving. The other examples, are described in detail by Anette Ittig ('A group of Inscribed Carpets from Persian Kurdistan', HALI, vol.4, no.2, 1981, pp.124-127).
The rug offered here differs from most of the group in that it is smaller in size and has silk pile highlights.