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A LARGE KHORASSAN KELLEH
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A LARGE KHORASSAN KELLEH

NORTH EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1820

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A LARGE KHORASSAN KELLEH
NORTH EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1820
Localised areas of wear, corroded black and brown, minor moth damage, scattered light repiling
26ft. x 11ft.10in. (790cm. x 360cm.)
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Lot Essay

This is one of a small number of similar carpets which include nasta'liq couplets woven into the harshang pattern field. One was published by Arthur Upham Pope (A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford, 1938, pl.1272A). A second example was in the Bernheimer Family Collection of Carpets sold in these Rooms 14 February 1996, lot 60. The example in Pope appears to be dated 1281/1864-5, while the bernheimer example was dated 1218/1813-14. The latter date seems the more probable for the group.

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