拍品 131
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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN SHRUB RUG
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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN SHRUB RUG

KARABAGH DISTRICT, 18TH CENTURY

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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN SHRUB RUG
KARABAGH DISTRICT, 18TH CENTURY
The brick-red field with an overall design of rosettes and angular floral sprays around flowering prunus blossom trees alternating with blue cypress trees, in an ivory border of meandering rosette, palmette and flowering vine between brick-red and golden-yellow spiralling ribbon and minor barber-pole stripes, one end missing outer stripe, old repairs and areas of repiling in the field
7ft.5in. x 5ft.4in. (226cm. x 165cm.)
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拍品專文

This is a beautifully delicately drawn rug whose design derives originally, as do so many from North West Persia at this time, from Vase technique carpets from 17th Century Kirman (Beattie, May: Carpets of Central Persia, exhibition catalogue, Sheffield, 1976, no.14, p.49). The present rug shares both the field design and the basic border design with this fragment in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Its structure is different however to most rugs of this period. It has much more in common with the later weavings of the Shirvan district, having a floppier handle and wavy white weft. A comparable structure was also seen on the unusual dragon carpet sold in these Rooms 15 October 1998, lot 272.