ISTANBUL, TURKEY, CIRCA 1920

Details

A SILK KOUM KAPI RUG
ISTANBUL, TURKEY, CIRCA 1920
Overall excellent condition
7ft.4in. x 4ft.11in. (224cm. x 149cm.)

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Lot Essay

The knot count measures approximately 10V x 11H knots per cm. sq.

The field design of this carpet is closely related to a group of early 17th-century Kirman 'vase' carpets, one of which was formerly in the Berlin Staatliche Museum and sadly thought to have been destroyed during World War II, illustrated in Friedrich Sarre and Hermann Trenkwald, Old Oriental Carpets, Leipzig, 1926, vol.II, pl.6 and the other still extant carpet is the Baltimore Museum 'Vase' carpet (see May H. Beattie, Carpets of Central Persia, exhibition catalogue, Sheffield and Birmingham, 1976, no 51, p.77).

Although the present rug is unsigned it is closely related, both in design and finesse, to a silk and metal-thread Koum Kapi rug signed by the master weaver Hagop Kapoudjian, that sold in these Rooms, 23 April 2013, lot 23.

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