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拍品專文
This very handsome large-scale arabesque-design is a variant of the well-researched Garrus design which appears on the often cited group of revival-period Bijar workshop carpets, commissioned by or for a notable of the Garrus district of Persian Kurdistan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (see Annette Ittig, HALI 4/2, 1981, pp.124-127). As so often is the case, we can trace the source of the design back to one of a number of highly successful overall pattern designs, incorporating interlocking arabesques and floral decoration, woven by the Kirmani weavers in south east Persia in the 17th century. A close variant of this design began to be woven in north west Persia in the 18th century and by the 19th century it was commonly associated with the small weaving centre of Garrus, near Bijar in west Persia, however it was not exclusively woven there. Among the best known of the group are the McMullan carpet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (J McMullan, Islamic Carpets, pl.22, New York, 1965, with altered date, shown by Ittig to have been 1309, not 1209 as McMullan believed), and the rug dated 1324 AH (1906 AD) in the Tehran Carpet Museum illustrated on the cover of HALI 1/1 (1978).
While most large examples with this design are woven on an indigo ground, the rich tomato-red of the present lot is rarely seen. The impressively large scale of the design is formed of paired inverted split-palmettes that alternate with the golden yellow and cerulean-blue palmettes, which form wide bands that alternate with thinner bands of flowering anemone, leafy branches and interlocking arabesque cartouches. The same large-scale tre-foil palmettes issuing star-like anemones, appear on a carpet sold as part of the Dani and Anna Ghigo Collection, in these Rooms, 12 May 2016, lot 315 and on a carpet more recently sold in these Rooms, 2 May 2019, lot 238. A further related example is illustrated in Murray L. Eiland Jr. & Murray Eiland III, Oriental Carpets, A Complete Guide, New York, 1973, fig.72, p.102.