A SOUTH CAUCASIAN TREE CARPET

SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY

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A SOUTH CAUCASIAN TREE CARPET
SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
The shaded brick-red field with diagonal rows of polychrome trees containing angular hooked vine and divided by polychrome palmettes, in a sandy yellow spiralling tendril and polychrome lozenge border with inner hooked panelled vine and minor mill-pattern stripes, areas of damage and repair, backed
9ft.6in. x 5ft.6in. (289cm. x 168cm.)

拍品專文

The design of this unusual rug can be traced through that of 18th century north west Persian garden carpets to the 'vase' carpets of 17th century Kirman. This development is documented by Christine Klose ('Betrachtungen zu Nordwestpersischen Gartenteppichen des 18. Jahrhunderts', HALI, vol.1, no.2, (1978), pp.113-118, esp. pls.1 and 8). While the cypress tree is normally found only in borders of eighteenth century Caucasian carpets, one example published by Grant-Ellis shows trees very similar to ours, also on a red ground, but combined into a lattice design (Ellis, C. Grant: Early Caucasian Rugs, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C., 1975, pl.24, p.78). This rug, with its diagonal rows of cypress trees alternating with other motifs, is directly traceable back to vase carpets such as a fragment in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Beattie, May H.: Carpets of Central Persia, exhibition catalogue, Sheffield, 1976, p.80, pls.56 and 57).