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拍品专文
The inscription reads 'By the order of His Excellency Emad Khaqan; Work of Garrus 1318 (1900 AD)'
In her article 'A Group of Inscribed Carpets from Persian Kurdistan', Hali, vol.4, no.2, 1981, pp.124-127, Annette Ittig discusses a small group of finely woven carpets with inscriptions, commissioned by an eminent figure from the district of Garrus and dated between AH 1295 (1878-9 AD) and AH 1324 (1906-7 AD). These carpets are characterised by their quality and design of large scrolling arabesques and floral shrub motifs derived from 16th and 17th century carpets such as the Bernheimer 'Vase' carpet fragment sold in these Rooms, 14 February 1996, lot 150. Ittig argues that the carpets were the work of a non-commercial venture in the Kurdish area of Garrus, in particular the village of Halvei, North-East of Bijar. Three other carpets, including one formerly in the McMullan Collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, are inscribed as being the work of Garrus. To this group should be added the present carpet, whose inscription was previously translated as 'Work of Korus', due to the authographic similarities between kaf and gaf in Farsi.
In her article 'A Group of Inscribed Carpets from Persian Kurdistan', Hali, vol.4, no.2, 1981, pp.124-127, Annette Ittig discusses a small group of finely woven carpets with inscriptions, commissioned by an eminent figure from the district of Garrus and dated between AH 1295 (1878-9 AD) and AH 1324 (1906-7 AD). These carpets are characterised by their quality and design of large scrolling arabesques and floral shrub motifs derived from 16th and 17th century carpets such as the Bernheimer 'Vase' carpet fragment sold in these Rooms, 14 February 1996, lot 150. Ittig argues that the carpets were the work of a non-commercial venture in the Kurdish area of Garrus, in particular the village of Halvei, North-East of Bijar. Three other carpets, including one formerly in the McMullan Collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, are inscribed as being the work of Garrus. To this group should be added the present carpet, whose inscription was previously translated as 'Work of Korus', due to the authographic similarities between kaf and gaf in Farsi.