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A TABRIZ RUG
NORTH WEST PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Price Realized
£3,500 ($7,165)
Christie's
SALE 7429 —
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
25 October 2007
London,
King Street
Localised wear, patches of repiling, sides and ends frayed
6ft.7in. x
4ft.2in. (201cm. x 127cm.)
Lot Notes
Despite being dated AH
1107/1695 AD it is more likely that this carpet was actually woven in the
second half of the 19th century. The stepped blue cartouche in the field
contains the word jawza which when translated means 'the constellation of
Gemini' and is flanked on either side by the symbol of 'Saggitarius'.
There appears to be no immediate explanation behind these astrological
symbols combined with the strange mythical figures issing from the waq waq
tree, (Hali, Issue 35, July/August/September 1987, pp.54-55, fig.5).
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