NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870

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A SILK HERIZ PRAYER RUG
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870
Overall very good condition
6ft.1in. x 4ft.6in. (185cm. x 136cm.)

来源

With C. John Fine Rugs Ltd., London, 1987

出版

Personal catalogue, 1993, H 31

刻印

The proverb inscribed on the rug means 'As the devil has a human face, do not offer your hand to everyone who offers you his'. Bearing a date or commissioning number '812'.

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The knot count measures approximately 9V x 8H knots per cm. sq.

A rug of near identical design, bearing the same inscription, was sold Sotheby's New York, 16 December 2009, lot 75. The colour palette on both rugs is very similar but applied differently. The colours on that example were swapped over, with the blue in the border of our rug moved into the spandrels and the central field in brick red rather than ivory. Both, however, were marked with the number '812' in the lower half. In their cataloguing, Sotheby's described this as a date, possibly AH 1280⁄1863 AD. Farrow, however, believed it to be a commissioning number.

NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870

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