NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1860

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A SAUJ BULAQ KURDISH CARPET
North West Persia, circa 1860
The ivory field with palmettes issuing angular vine around a large shaded plain blue panel containing a serrated brick-red medallion with pole pendants enclosing a rosette centrepiece issuing angular flowering and leafy vine in a shaded brick-red border with turtle-palmettes together with flowerheads issuing polychrome flowering and leafy vine meander between golden yellow and blue floral meander, reciprocal skittle-patern, and barber-pole stripes, scattered repairs, slight loss at each end
10ft.9in. x 5ft.2in. (326cm. x 157cm.)

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Lot Essay

This carpet has the well-drawn border motifs and the completely uncluttered field resembling a number of Garrus district urban rugs of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The motifs within the spandrels and medallion however differ, and the carpet does not have the same structure. An examination of the floppy red wefted structure and the soft lustrous wool which is quite unlike the denser harder wool of Garrus district rugs shows that this is an unusually restrained weaving of one of the Kurdish groups that resided near Sauj Bulaq.

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