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拍品专文
The knot count is 8H x 9V per cm.sq.
The inscription along the top and bottom inner guard stripe in Armenian minuscules reads:
The weaving of this rug was started on 3 January 1902 in the Tedrebet district of Aleppo, in the workshop of Kashishian Karapet, worked by two young ladies, Leonik and Lusia Ardesenyin. It took two and half years to weave, finished in May 1904, the design was executed by Ardashes Han Sultanian.
The detailed and highly informative inscription on this rug is very similar to the only other published example of an Aleppo silk rug which was sold in these Rooms, 14 October, 1999, lot 20 (see also Lucy Der Manuelian and Murray L. Eiland, Weavers, Merchants and Kings, The inscribed Rugs of Armenia, Fort Worth, 1984, no.68, pp.202-3). Of extremely high quality and suppleness, that rug was the first documented example known to have been woven by an Armenian community not within Istanbul at the beginning of the 20th century. The inscription is socially historic as it indicates that the two young ladies who wove the rug may have been related and were continuing a female tradition of weaving within that family.
The inscription along the top and bottom inner guard stripe in Armenian minuscules reads:
The weaving of this rug was started on 3 January 1902 in the Tedrebet district of Aleppo, in the workshop of Kashishian Karapet, worked by two young ladies, Leonik and Lusia Ardesenyin. It took two and half years to weave, finished in May 1904, the design was executed by Ardashes Han Sultanian.
The detailed and highly informative inscription on this rug is very similar to the only other published example of an Aleppo silk rug which was sold in these Rooms, 14 October, 1999, lot 20 (see also Lucy Der Manuelian and Murray L. Eiland, Weavers, Merchants and Kings, The inscribed Rugs of Armenia, Fort Worth, 1984, no.68, pp.202-3). Of extremely high quality and suppleness, that rug was the first documented example known to have been woven by an Armenian community not within Istanbul at the beginning of the 20th century. The inscription is socially historic as it indicates that the two young ladies who wove the rug may have been related and were continuing a female tradition of weaving within that family.