CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1920

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A SILK KASHAN PRAYER RUG
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1920
The shaded medium blue field with fine scrolling vine issuing palmettes and floral sprays entwined around cloudband panels, pink inscription cartouche above, the polychrome patchwork mihrab arch with inscriptions issuing from a stylised mosque lamp, enclosed within a pink continuous inscription band in a burgundy border of fine flowering scrolling leafy vine and inscription cartouche panels between golden brown floral meander and inscription stripes, plain outer blue stripe
5ft.5in. x 3ft.4in. (165cm. x 102cm.)

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Lot Essay

The main pink cartouche in the niche gives the name of the workshop: Sadaqiyani Qasitli. The small kufic inscriptions in the roundels say that this rug was made in the reign of Shah 'Abbas (!). The remainder of the inscriptions, in contrast to the koranic verses which are found in the Topkapi prayer rugs from which the design of this is derived, are Arabic secular wise sayings.

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