拍品 495
495
A FINE ZAREH PENYAMIN KOUM KAPI RUG after the Safavid Polonaise original, the silver-covered-thread ground with dense scrolling palmette vine and serrated leaves executed in pastel colours around a gold-covered-thread medallion containing similar motifs, part pistachio-green medallions in the centre of each side, in a border of rose-pink and lemon-yellow scrolling arabesques enclosing gold- and silver-covered-thread palmettes between inner meandering vine and outer continuous trefoil stripes, a short kilim strip at each end (excellent condition)

细节
A FINE ZAREH PENYAMIN KOUM KAPI RUG after the Safavid Polonaise original, the silver-covered-thread ground with dense scrolling palmette vine and serrated leaves executed in pastel colours around a gold-covered-thread medallion containing similar motifs, part pistachio-green medallions in the centre of each side, in a border of rose-pink and lemon-yellow scrolling arabesques enclosing gold- and silver-covered-thread palmettes between inner meandering vine and outer continuous trefoil stripes, a short kilim strip at each end (excellent condition)
8ft.1in. x 4ft.4in. (246cm. x 132cm.)

拍品专文

A rug woven from the same cartoon and with exactly the same colours, signed in at least five places by Zareh Penyamin, was sold in these Rooms, 29 April 1993, lot 325. For a discussion of Zareh Penyamin and the other best known weavers in the Koum Kapi district of Istanbul, see: Bensoussan, P.: 'The Masterweavers of Istanbul', in HALI 26, April-June 1985, pp.34-41