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Lot Essay
The PETAG workshop (Persische Teppiche A.G.), was a German initiative founded in Berlin in 1911. Guided by Heinrich Jacoby, author of “Eine Sammlung Orientalischer Teppiche”, Berlin, 1923, amongst other works, a large workshop was opened in Tabriz. The carpets are identified by the use of a particularly high quality, lustrous wool, the natural vegetal dyes and their distinctive 'signature' formed of three çintamani roundels, located here in the corner of the upper left hand inner guard stripe (as illustrated).
At the end of the 19th century/early 20th century, there were a number of highly important publications on the history of Oriental carpets which included large-scale black and white, and more importantly some colour illustrations of magnificent Safavid and Ottoman carpets. Publications such as A History of Oriental Carpets before 1800, by F.R. Martin, Stockholm, 1908; Friedrich Sarre's, Orientalische Teppiche, Vienna, 1892, and Alt-Orientalische Teppiche, by F. Sarre and Herrman Trenkwald, Vienna, 1926, gave the workshop access, for the first time, to the great 16th and 17th century carpet designs. The design source of the present lot is a 16th century Persian carpet published by Friedrich Sarre and Hermann Trenkwald, Altorientaliche Teppiche, Vienna and Leipzig, 1928, Volume 1, pl. 18, (an illustrated copy of which is in the present sale, lot 112). The large, curled saz leaves enclosing palmettes on this Tabriz are also reminiscent of those on the 18th century Azerbaijan kelleh in the same sale, lot 103, whose design also relates to the same carpet illustrated in Sarre and Trenkwald, op.cit. pl.18.
At the end of the 19th century/early 20th century, there were a number of highly important publications on the history of Oriental carpets which included large-scale black and white, and more importantly some colour illustrations of magnificent Safavid and Ottoman carpets. Publications such as A History of Oriental Carpets before 1800, by F.R. Martin, Stockholm, 1908; Friedrich Sarre's, Orientalische Teppiche, Vienna, 1892, and Alt-Orientalische Teppiche, by F. Sarre and Herrman Trenkwald, Vienna, 1926, gave the workshop access, for the first time, to the great 16th and 17th century carpet designs. The design source of the present lot is a 16th century Persian carpet published by Friedrich Sarre and Hermann Trenkwald, Altorientaliche Teppiche, Vienna and Leipzig, 1928, Volume 1, pl. 18, (an illustrated copy of which is in the present sale, lot 112). The large, curled saz leaves enclosing palmettes on this Tabriz are also reminiscent of those on the 18th century Azerbaijan kelleh in the same sale, lot 103, whose design also relates to the same carpet illustrated in Sarre and Trenkwald, op.cit. pl.18.