拍品專文
Warp: wool, natural, tan, Z2S, some mixing
Weft: wool, natural, tan, Z3, 1 shoot, straight, wefts visible equally first 2, then only every second weft visible, irregularly
Pile: wool, Z2, some Z3, symmetric knots, H9 x V6
Sides: Not original
Ends: Not original
The present carpet is an example of the use of 17th Century Classical Persian designs in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially by weavers in Northwest Persia. The design is based on 17th century "Vase" technique or "Tree" carpets which have either a lattice or arrangement of various realistically drawn flowering shrubs. A comparable 17th century example is the ex-Ballard Tree rug in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Dimand,M.S. and Mailey, Jean, Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, p.81, fig.111). However, one can also discern the obvious influence of 17th Century Mughal lattice carpets in our example further proving the active exchange of design motifs both in the 17th Century and into the 18th and 19th centuries. The copying of 17th century classical carpets flourished in the 18th century with what seems to be several centers in production. A contemporary example was sold in these rooms, an 18th century Northwest Persian Shrub and Medallion carpet in April 1994, lot 21. The treatment of the interlacing arabesque border and guard borders, a direct descendent of 17th Vase carpets, are quite similar as is the somewhat naive drawing of the flowering shrubs.
The carpet offered here, of unusual large size, is well balanced by the alternation of both color and floral arrrangements in the horizontal axes. The dynamic, undulating border contains the static lattice creating a visually mesmerizing composition.
Weft: wool, natural, tan, Z3, 1 shoot, straight, wefts visible equally first 2, then only every second weft visible, irregularly
Pile: wool, Z2, some Z3, symmetric knots, H9 x V6
Sides: Not original
Ends: Not original
The present carpet is an example of the use of 17th Century Classical Persian designs in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially by weavers in Northwest Persia. The design is based on 17th century "Vase" technique or "Tree" carpets which have either a lattice or arrangement of various realistically drawn flowering shrubs. A comparable 17th century example is the ex-Ballard Tree rug in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Dimand,M.S. and Mailey, Jean, Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, p.81, fig.111). However, one can also discern the obvious influence of 17th Century Mughal lattice carpets in our example further proving the active exchange of design motifs both in the 17th Century and into the 18th and 19th centuries. The copying of 17th century classical carpets flourished in the 18th century with what seems to be several centers in production. A contemporary example was sold in these rooms, an 18th century Northwest Persian Shrub and Medallion carpet in April 1994, lot 21. The treatment of the interlacing arabesque border and guard borders, a direct descendent of 17th Vase carpets, are quite similar as is the somewhat naive drawing of the flowering shrubs.
The carpet offered here, of unusual large size, is well balanced by the alternation of both color and floral arrrangements in the horizontal axes. The dynamic, undulating border contains the static lattice creating a visually mesmerizing composition.