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Lot Essay
The knot count is approximately 9V x 9H per cm. sq.
Hagop Kapoudjian was one of the founding masters of the Koum Kapi school and his weavings are among the rarest and most sort after of all Koum Kapi carpets. A very similar rug, with a different central medallion, is published in George F. Farrow, Hagop Kapoudjian: The First and Greatest Master of the Kum Kapi School, London, 1993, pl.31, p.59. The design is closely related to a Safavid carpet from the collection of the Musée du Louvre, illustrated in F.R. Martin, A History of Oriental Carpets before 1800, Vienna, 1908, fig.157, p.65. For another Hagop weaving in the sale please see lot 23.
Hagop Kapoudjian was one of the founding masters of the Koum Kapi school and his weavings are among the rarest and most sort after of all Koum Kapi carpets. A very similar rug, with a different central medallion, is published in George F. Farrow, Hagop Kapoudjian: The First and Greatest Master of the Kum Kapi School, London, 1993, pl.31, p.59. The design is closely related to a Safavid carpet from the collection of the Musée du Louvre, illustrated in F.R. Martin, A History of Oriental Carpets before 1800, Vienna, 1908, fig.157, p.65. For another Hagop weaving in the sale please see lot 23.