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SALE 6630 LOT 93
A NORTH WEST PERSIAN GARDEN CARPET FRAGMENT
SECOND
HALF 18TH CENTURY
Price Realized £10,755 ($16,670)
Sale Information
Christie's SALE 6630 —
ORIENTAL RUGS & CARPETS
17 October 2002
London, King Street
LOT NOTES
Lot Description
A NORTH WEST PERSIAN GARDEN CARPET
FRAGMENT
Second half 18th century
The indigo field scattered with
a variety of trees and floral sprays together with columns of polychrome
panels containing flowering trees, in a shaded tomato-red border of
rosettes and angular leaves between ivory floral spray stripes, composite
from a larger original, some areas of wear 10ft.4in. x 10ft.1in. (314cm. x
307cm.)
Provenance
Mr and Mrs Reginald Toms, Switzerland, sold Sotheby's
London, June 7, 1995, lot 130.
Galerie Yves Mikaeloff, Paris, sold
Christie's London, October 16, 1997, lot 102.
The 'garden' design
is one of a large number of seventeenth century designs created in south
east Persia which travelled to the north west of the country in the
eighteenth. The prototype of the design can be seen in a carpet woven in
the 'vase' technique in the royal collection in Jaipur. Both Kurt Erdmann
(Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets, London, 1970, pp.66-70) and
Christine Klose ('Betrachtungen zu nordwestpersischen Gartenteppichen des
18. Jahrhunderts', HALI, vol.1, no.2, (1978), p.114) discuss the
development of the group. The present carpet is one of the later examples
in the development, typified by the lack of birds among the trees, and the
simplified rendering of the trees and pool medallions.
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