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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN KELLEH
18TH CENTURY
Price Realized £23,750
($39,330)
Sale Information
SALE 1519 —
ORIENTAL RUGS & CARPETS
8 April 2014
London, King Street
Lot Description
A NORTH WEST PERSIAN KELLEH
18TH CENTURY
Reduced
in length, scattered repairs, ends rewoven
16ft.11in. x 6ft.10in.
(515cm. x 208cm.).
Lot Notes
The design of the present carpet
has its roots in a sub-group of 17th century Kirman ‘vase’ carpets, such
as the famous Gulbenkian and the Mrs E. T. Brown sickle leaf carpets
(Arthur Upham Pope, A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford, 1938, pl.1235 and
1236). Two early 18th century carpets illustrated by Charles Grant Ellis
in Early Caucasian Carpets, Washington, 1975, pl.19 and 22, p.68 and p.74
are interesting contemporaneous examples of the migration of these designs
from South East to North West Persia. The present carpet relates very
closely to a kelleh illustrated in Sarre and Trenkwald, Old Oriental
Carpets, Vienna, 1926/1928, pl. 17 and 18 and another example in the
Skokloster Castle, Sweden, illustrated in F.R. Martin (F.R. Martin, A
History of Oriental Carpets Before 1900, Vienna, 1908, pl.XXII). The
structure and colouration of our carpet relates closely to another North
West Persian kelleh of Safavid Isfahan design, formerly in the collections
of F.R. Martin and C.R. Lamm, that was sold in these Rooms, 5 April 2011,
lot 104.
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