Lot 38
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A SENNEH RUG
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A SENNEH RUG

WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870

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A SENNEH RUG
West Persia, circa 1870
The ivory field with an overall herati design around a central serrated blue medallion with pendants of similar herati design, the dark blue spandrels similar, in a golden yellow border containing rosettes and angular vine meander, an inscription panel above, between light blue floral meander stripes, small areas of repiling
6ft.9in. x 4ft.5in. (206cm. x 135cm.)
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Lot Essay

The inscription panel reads: Farmayesh-e navab ashraf wala mu'tamed al-dawla (Commisioned by His Excellency the most noble, the exalted, Mutamid al-Dawla, may his...be eternal) It is most likely that the patron was Farhad Mirza, the son of 'Abbas Mirza, who died in 1305/1887-8 AD. Amongst a number of other appointments, in 1284/1867-8, he was appointed Govenor of Kurdistan; it is probably whilst he held this post that the present rug was woven. (Bamdad, M,: Dictionary of National Biography of Iran, III, Tehran, 1966, pp. 86-92).

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