SOUTH EAST PERSIA, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY

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A KIRMAN "VASE" CARPET FRAGMENT
SOUTH EAST PERSIA, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
The indigo field with a delicate flowerhead and palmette lattice surrounding bold polychrome lozenges formed of serrated leaves containing further linked palmette flowering vine issuing from a stylised vase, in an indigo split-palmette strapwork border between a striped flowering vine inner stripe and reciprocal flowerhead outer stripe, areas of wear and repair
6ft. x 4ft.10in. (183cm. x 147cm.)

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Lot Essay

The design in the present lot has a bold lattice formed of serrated leaves which enclose four palmettes. A larger example from the field of a similar carpet is in the Textile Museum, Washington, DC., (May H. Beattie: Carpets of Central Persia, Westerham, 1976, pl.10, p.31). According to Beattie there is a small number of other fragments with this design, but no surviving complete carpets.

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