SPAIN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

细节

AN ALCARAZ RUG
SPAIN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
The royal blue field scattered with various minute flowerheads, minor animal and bird motifs around an overall linked lattice design of golden bold palmettes and grouped leaves, in a golden yellow scrolling S-motif border between narrow geometric motif minor stripes, areas of wear particularly in the central field, scattered small areas of old repiling and repair
13ft.4in. x 6ft.11in. (405cm. x 211cm.)

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品专文

The design of the present rug and its pair in the following lot derive, as did that of the previous lot, from Italian sixteenth century velvets. In this particular variant, however, the weavers have played with the notion of what is design and what is background, so that what was originally palmettes within a similarly coloured ogival lattice on a coloured ground has here been changed to a design where what was originally the lattice is now the ground, and therefore what was the ground within each panel has now become the main bulk of each motif.

The inscription indicates that this pair of rugs were originally made as a pious gift to the shrine of Saint James, very possibly at Santiago da Compostella, but also concievably another foundation dedicated to the same patron.

Please see also the note to the following lot.