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Lot Essay
The knot count measures approximately 9V x 8H per cm. sq.
Silk carpets woven in Meshed are rare and thus appear very infrequently on the market. The intricate design on the present lot appears almost architectural in its arrangement, comprising a tight network of leaf and flowering vine set upon a wine-red field, enclosing large cusped apricot medallions. This highly complex, decorative scheme is reminiscent of the Safavid architecture of the great mosques and buildings of Persia, including the Shah mosque, Sheikh Lotfallah mosque and Chehil Sutun pavilion, 'Paradox in Persian Carpet Patterns', Schuyler Cammann, HALI, Vol 1, No 3, fig.3, p.252. A further example can be found in the tilework of the Vakil mosque in Shiraz which was clad in tiles in the 1830s (Gérard Degeorge and Yves Porter, The Art of the Islamic Tile, Paris, 2001, p.165).
This design of interlocking medallions proved fashionable in various media in the mid 19th century and was used in various regions. A similar arrangement can be seen on the impressive Kirman palace carpet, woven for Nasir Al-Din Shah, dated AH 1286/1869-70 AD, which sold in these Rooms, 6 April 2006, lot 292. Although the inscription on that carpet does not define in which palace the carpet was intended to be used, it was possibly intended for the capital, Tehran. Both that carpet and the present lot depend on an overall lattice of oval cartouches filled with dense arrangements of flowers.
Silk carpets woven in Meshed are rare and thus appear very infrequently on the market. The intricate design on the present lot appears almost architectural in its arrangement, comprising a tight network of leaf and flowering vine set upon a wine-red field, enclosing large cusped apricot medallions. This highly complex, decorative scheme is reminiscent of the Safavid architecture of the great mosques and buildings of Persia, including the Shah mosque, Sheikh Lotfallah mosque and Chehil Sutun pavilion, 'Paradox in Persian Carpet Patterns', Schuyler Cammann, HALI, Vol 1, No 3, fig.3, p.252. A further example can be found in the tilework of the Vakil mosque in Shiraz which was clad in tiles in the 1830s (Gérard Degeorge and Yves Porter, The Art of the Islamic Tile, Paris, 2001, p.165).
This design of interlocking medallions proved fashionable in various media in the mid 19th century and was used in various regions. A similar arrangement can be seen on the impressive Kirman palace carpet, woven for Nasir Al-Din Shah, dated AH 1286/1869-70 AD, which sold in these Rooms, 6 April 2006, lot 292. Although the inscription on that carpet does not define in which palace the carpet was intended to be used, it was possibly intended for the capital, Tehran. Both that carpet and the present lot depend on an overall lattice of oval cartouches filled with dense arrangements of flowers.