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AN UNUSUAL SMALL TABRIZ MEDALLION RUG FRAGMENT
NORTH WEST IRAN, FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY
Price £3,055 ($4,384)
Sale Information
Christie's
SALE 6435 — ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
3 May 2001
London, King Street
Description: The pale dusty rose and cream field with angular vine issuing
flowerheads and stylised hooked palmettes around a partial medallion, in a
seagreen border of palmettes issuing bold angular flowering vine 4ft.1in. x
2ft.5in. (124cm. x 73.5cm.)
Provenance: Purchased from a private collector in Italy
Lot Notes
This is a Tabriz medallion rug remarkable for its small size. Rugs of this
size abound in miniatures, but examples in the otherwise well-represented
Tabriz medallion group of carpets are virtually unknown. The design is
identical in form with a number of the better known large examples, such as
the Gulbenkian (Pope, Arthur Upham: A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford, 1938,
pl.1122), former Berlin (Pope, op.cit., pl.1124) and Alexander examples
(Alexander, Christopher: A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art, the Color and
Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets, New York and Oxford, 1993,
pp.182-9). The execution is slightly less curvilinear than the above, but
that will be partly as a result of the diminution of size of the motifs.
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