NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1910

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A PETAG TABRIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1910
Of "Vase" design, the dusty raspberry-red field with a scrolling flowering vine lattice enclosing individual floral sprays, in a pale apricot strapwork border of scrolling arabesques and split-palmettes between sage-green flowerhead and apricot flowering vine stripes, the Petag cintamani signature in one corner, localised areas of wear, minor damage in outer stripe at one end
12ft. 10in. x 10ft.2in. (392cm. x 309cm.)

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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.

Sale room notice

The source for the design of this carpet comes from a carpet formerly in the Sarre Collection but whose whereabouts is presently unknown; May Beattie: Carpets of Central Persia, Westerham, 1976, pl.76, p.95.

Lot Essay

The source for the elegant single-plane lattice design of the present lot is a vase-technique fragment published by Friedrich Sarre from his own collection, (Friedrich Sarre and Hermann Trenkwald: Altorientaliche Teppiche, Vienna and Leipzig, 1928, pl.8.).

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