Lot 118
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A SILK TABRIZ PRAYER RUG
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A SILK TABRIZ PRAYER RUG

NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1900

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A SILK TABRIZ PRAYER RUG
North West Persia, circa 1900
The pale-pink field with columns on either side together with a floral pendant below an ivory mihrab arch with angular vine in an ivory border with rosettes and serrated leaves between floral meander stripes, slight wear
5ft.5in. x 3ft.11in. (165cm. x 119cm.)
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

This rug is knotted with the arabic numerals 202 in the apex of the mihrab. This appears to be the signature of a particular workshop in Tabriz who specialised in silk rugs. They wove using a silk weft in contrast to the more frequently encountered cotton. Other examples by the same workshop have been sold in these Rooms 15 October 1998, lots 314 and 315, 22 April 1999, lot 205, and 3 May 2001, lots 9 and 147).

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