POSSIBLY TALISH REGION, MID-19TH CENTURY

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A SOUTH CAUCASIAN RUG
Possibly Talish region, mid-19th century
The shaded red field with two large panels of an overall lattice of pale red lines outlined in polychrome chequered triangles flanking a central red panel with small scattered floral motifs around a hooked concentric ivory and red medallion containing hooked panels, in an ivory border of polychrome hooked lozenges divided by serrated leaves and scattered flowerheads between inner polychrome chequered panel and outer reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes, very slight wear, small areas of repair, one end guard-stripe rewoven, selvage replaced
8ft.4in. x 4ft. (255cm. x 122cm.)

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拍品專文

This South Caucasian rug combines a number of elements known in other rugs, but in a way which is most unusual. The overall proportions, the reciprocal skittle-pattern outer stripe and the playfully coloured squares in the inner guard stripe all indicate a Talish origin. Indeed a Talish rug is published which has a red field completely covered by an overall pink lozenge lattice (Hali 50, April 90, p.32, Adil Besim advertisement). Another "Talish group" rug in the Jim Dixon Collection has an overall light blue lattice on a dark blue field (Hali 111, July-August 2000, p.115) which is very similar to the example advertised by Clive Loveless and formerly in the Bortz Collection which is dated 1246 (1830 AD) (Hali 101, November 1998, p.121).

The central panel comes from a very different tradition. It appears to be a slightly simplified and somewhat later version of the medallion which occurs in the centre of a well-known eighteenth century carpet formerly in the Price Collection and now in the Orient Stars Collection (Kirchheim, E. Heinrich: Orient Stars, London, 1993, p.151, no 83; see also Hali vol.4, no.4, cover). Again the medallion is set on a two-tone red ground, although here the cusping and curvilinear elements have been placed in a lozenge panel. That rug has prompted a number of questions as to its origin; it was even catalogued as being from the Erzurum region of Turkey at one stage while Michael Franses in the Kirchheim catalogue settles for "North West Persia or surrounding regions".