SIGNED HAGOP KAPOUDJIAN, PARIS, CIRCA 1925

The cartoon depicting a cartouche in a green border with serpentine cloudbands resembles the border on lot 183 in the present sale. Like that example, it is signed with Hagop's initials in both Armenian and Latin script. On the back of these cartoons is stamped 'H. Kapoudjian, 24 Rue St-Lazare, Paris. It was to these premises Hagop moved in the mid 1920s, with funding provided by Abraham Toussounian, and established a number of looms to make silk rugs and to repair those in important collections such as those of Calouste Gulbenkian and Hagop Kevorkian (George Farrow and Leonard Harrow, Hagop Kapoudjian: the First and Greatest Master of the Kum Kapi School, London, 1993, p.13). For further information on the Hagop cartoons in this sale, see lot 180.