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A KIRMAN 'VASE' CARPET
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A KIRMAN 'VASE' CARPET

SOUTH EAST PERSIA, 17TH CENTURY

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A KIRMAN 'VASE' CARPET
South East Persia, 17th century
The medium blue field with a triple overlaid lattice linking a wide variety of palmettes, rosettes and flowerheads surrounded by flowering tendrils, a stylised vase issuing floral sprays below within the lattice, in an apricot palmette and floral spray border between reciprocal trefoil and ivory floral meander stripes, some areas of wear, partial loss of outer guard stripe, occasional repiling and reweaving mostly to corroded red
13ft.5in. x 6ft. (409cm. x 183cm.)
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The so-called 'vase carpets' are a distinct group within the corpus of Safavid carpets. The name came about from the inclusion of vases within the design repetoire. In most cases the overall design has been replaced by an obvious directional design with a vase either at one end or occasionally along the sides having tendrils issuing bold palmettes and flowerheads together with an intricate complex system of scrolling vine linking the various floral motifs. The carpet offered here is a classic example of this type. In the exhibition that was orgainised by May Beattie in 1976 she combineed a group of carpets that share a technical structure quite unlike other carpets of the same period. Although the technichal structure is the same, many of the designs were totally unrelated to the vase and palmette type like the one offered here. For the purpose of her catalogue she refered to the weave as 'vase-technique' because this was the method of weaving the famous group of Vase carpets; and the carpets were refered to as 'Vase'-technique carpets (Beattie, May,H.:Carpets of Central Persia with special reference to rugs of Kirman, Birmingham, 1976, p.11).
Other examples having similar design in both field and border can be seen in Pope, Arthur Upham:Survey of Persian Art, Volume VI, London and New York, 1939, pl.1226 and pl.1228.