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Sotheby's
Carpets
New York | 03 Jun 2005, 10:15 AM | N08103
LOT 49
AN AZERBAIJAN RUG, NORTHWEST PERSIA,
18th century
ESTIMATE 20,000-30,000 USD
Lot Sold: 27,000 USD
CATALOGUE NOTE
PROVENANCE
Sotheby's London, 28 April 1993, lot 66.
CATALOGUE NOTE
Since this unusual rug was purchased, the most related
example to have appeared on the market is a gallery carpet
from the
Rossi collection (Sotheby's London, 10-12 March 1999, lot 1540) which had
a similar structure, coloring and
Isphahan-inspired field design. The
field pattern of the present lot is more closely linked to the
'in-and-out' palmette,
vinery and cloudband rugs of Isphahan, for one
example, Sotheby's New York, April 10, 1997, lot 114. The Rossi
carpet
had a directional pattern of rows of palmettes and cloudbands, elements
found in Isphahan rugs, however
compositionally arranged in the manner
of Northwest Persian or Karabagh carpets such as pl. 78, Kirchheim, H. et
al
., Orient Stars, London 1993, pp. 144-5. The borders of both of
these carpets, while different themselves, have
Turkish
characteristics, with the motifs of this rug recalling those in the field
of so-called 'bird' Oushak rugs. Here,
however, the border is also a
version of that on other South Caucasian carpets, such as one in the
Textile Museum,
see Ellis, Charles Grant, Early Caucasian Rugs,
Washington, D.C. 1975, pl. 9. The reciprocal trefoil guard borders on
the present rug appear as a primary border in carpets such as the
Caucasian blossom carpet in the Textile Museum,
see Ellis, op.cit., pl.
24 and a Sa'uj Bulagh carpet, see Burns, James, Antique Rugs of Kurdistan,
Seattle, 2002, pl. 43.
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