A BIDJAR CARPET

NORTH WEST PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A BIDJAR CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The shaded indigo field Garrus design, the brick-red and ivory bold split palmette lattice divided by polychrome hooked and serrated palmettes and a variety of angular floral spays, flowerheads and tiny snail-motifs, in a brick-red border of polychrome, palmettes, angular serrated leaf vine and delicate flowerheads between ivory palmette, meandering vine and plain outer stripes, inscription cartouche above, flat-woven strip at each end
18ft. x 8ft.3in. (549cm. x 251cm.)

來源

Henry Oppenheimer Collection, sold in these Rooms 17 July 1936, lot 348 (70gns to Arditti)

拍品專文

The inscription orginally read "'amal Garrus, 1207". Both the G of Garrus and the second digit of the date have been altered at a later date.

This carpet is one a small known group of highly decorative inscribed carpets made in the Bidjar provinces in Persia during the 19th and early 20th centuries. For a detailed discussion on the group see Ittig,A.:HALI, Vol.4.No.2. London 1981, pp.124-127.