NORTH WEST PERSIA, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A KARABAGH KELLEH
NORTH WEST PERSIA, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The indigo field with an overall lozenge lattice formed of serrated polychrome leaves enclosing rosettes, in a fox-brown meandering arabesque and flowering vine border, between ivory and lemon-yellow floral stripes, outer reciprocal trefoil stripe, areas of localised wear, corrosion, occasional tinting, slight loss at each end, repairs at one end
14ft.10in. x 6ft.4in. (453cm. x 192cm.)

Provenance

Anon sale, Sotheby's London, 24 April 1991, lot 91.

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Lot Essay

A very similar carpet with identical design to the field and border, but with the field colours reversed, is illustrated in Werner Grote Hasenbalg: Der Orientteppich, seine Geschichte und seine Kultur, Berlin, 1922, vol.III, pl.64. Writing at the beginning of the 20th century the author dated it to "around 1800" and attributed it to Sultanabad.

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