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Lot Essay
The knot count measures approximately 7V x 7H per cm. sq.
The design of interlocking cruciform medallions filled with a variety of flowering trees, shrubs and floral sprays echoes those found on 18th century Khorassan carpets, such as a fragment sold in the Bernheimer collection in these Rooms, 14 February, 1996, lot 180. The design had a revival of interest in the 19th century and appears on a carpet sold twice in these Rooms, 28 April 1994, lot 567, and then 25 April 2002, lot 150, and on another carpet bearing the same design and similar border sold, Christie's London, 7 October 2010, lot 210. The drawing, colouring and spacing of both the near-pair of carpets and the present silk carpet, stand out as the best that one could hope to find from 19th century Kashan carpets, woven with the technical features that have come to be associated with the elusive weaver Mohtasham.
The design of interlocking cruciform medallions filled with a variety of flowering trees, shrubs and floral sprays echoes those found on 18th century Khorassan carpets, such as a fragment sold in the Bernheimer collection in these Rooms, 14 February, 1996, lot 180. The design had a revival of interest in the 19th century and appears on a carpet sold twice in these Rooms, 28 April 1994, lot 567, and then 25 April 2002, lot 150, and on another carpet bearing the same design and similar border sold, Christie's London, 7 October 2010, lot 210. The drawing, colouring and spacing of both the near-pair of carpets and the present silk carpet, stand out as the best that one could hope to find from 19th century Kashan carpets, woven with the technical features that have come to be associated with the elusive weaver Mohtasham.