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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN RUNNER
MID-19TH CENTURY
Price Realized
£10,575 ($15,175)
Sale Information
Christie's SALE 6435
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
3 May 2001
London, King Street
Lot Description
A NORTH WEST PERSIAN RUNNER
Mid-19th Century
The field with an overall design of serrated medium blue and indigo
zigzags, in a warm brown and tomato-red reciprocal trefoil border between
ivory angular floral meander stripes, very slight wear and associated old
tinting, reduced in length, slight loss to outer stripe, repair at one end
14ft.6in. x 3ft.4in. (442cm. x 102cm.)
Lot Notes
The design of
this runner can be compared to that of another runner sold in these Rooms
14 October 1999, lot 116. The design of the present runner is however
purer and the piece appears to be considerably older in date. The design
originates from the flatwoven summer carpets (jajim) which were very
popular in Persia in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They are often
seen used as floor coverings in portraits of dignitaries of the time, such
as Prince Ardashir Mirza by Abu'l-Hasan Ghaffari naqash bashi, dated
1852-3 AD, sold in these Rooms 11 October 1988, lot 24 and now in the
Hashem Khosrovani Qajar Collection (Diba, Layla S.: Royal Persian
Paintings exhibition catalogue, New York, 1988, no.79, p.250). Their use
dates back at least to the laste Safavid period.
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