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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN KELLEH
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Price Realized
£17,925 ($31,673)
Sale Information
Christie's SALE 6897 —
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
29 April
2004
London, King Street
Lot Description
A NORTH WEST PERSIAN KELLEH
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The indigo field with an overall design of polychrome hooked palmettes
linked by angular floral and leafy vine, in a rust-red border of angular
vine, stylised flowerheads and split palmettes between sandy yellow
angular leafy vine minor stripes, some areas of wear
17ft.1in. x
6ft.4in. (520cm. x 193cm.)
Lot Notes
The design of this carpet,
which proved extremely popular with weavers in North West Persia and the
South Caucasus, derives directly from a group of late 17th and early 18th
century Khorassan carpets. A number of different variants were produced in
various centres, as discussed with reference to four examples in Paris by
Pamela Benoussan ("Four 'Harshang' pattern Carpets in the Musée des Arts
Décoratifs", Hali vol.3, no.3, 1981, pp.207-209) which illustrates the
widespread use of this design.
Unlike the example sold in these
Rooms, Mikaeloff The Eclectic Eye, 16 October 1997, lot 100, where the
tendrils still show the vestiges of the spriralling designs, in the
present lot the tendrils form straight lozenges and the secondary motifs
have evolved to form the fully developed harshang design.
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