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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN PRAYER RUG
CIRCA 1800
Price Realized £10,000
($15,440)
Sale Information
Christie's SALE 7988 —
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
4 October
2011
London, King Street
LOT NOTES
Lot Description
A NORTH WEST PERSIAN PRAYER RUG
CIRCA
1800
Of Ghiordes design, band of cotton in lower part, a few areas of
uneven wear and corrosion, replaced selvages with possible slight loss,
one localised area of repiling and small repairs along the lower end, the
other end secured
4ft.9in. x 3ft.10in. (145cm. x 117cm.)
Lot
Notes
While a few early prayer rugs from Persia and India are known, it
is Turkish prayer rugs that in terms of quantity vastly outnumber all
others put together through the 17th to the early 19th century. It is not
surprising therefore that when Persian weavers in the 19th century wanted
to make a prayer rug they looked to Anatolian prototypes for ideas on
design. The present rug is almost an exact copy of an early 18th century
Ghiordes rug, but with the vibrant colouring and structure more typical of
the Fereghan district. A rug which appears very possibly to be from the
same workshop, with almost identical borders but a red field of large
palmettes was attributed by Franz Bausback to East Anatolia, circa 1700
(Anatolische Knüpfteppiche aus vier Jahrhunderten, Mannheim 1978,
pp.32-3).
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