SOUTH PERSIA, CIRCA 1880

细节

AN AFSHAR RUG
South Persia, circa 1880
The ivory field with a lattice of angular vine meander forming panels containing stylised tulip heads issuing angular floral sprays, in a light blue border of polychrome flowerhead panels containing arrowheads together with facing half panels between blue stepped vine meander and barber-pole stripes, polychrome linked squares at each end, slight wear
6ft.1in. x 4ft.11in. (185cm. x 150cm.)

注意事项

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拍品专文

The design of this Afshar rug has been called the "tulip" or "lattice" design (Tanavoli, Parviz: "The Afshar, part 2", Hali 57, June 1991, p.103. He attributes rugs of this design to the Sirjan area.

The colouring of this particular rug, with its unusual fresh contrast of the white field and light blue border, is matched by a small number of comparable examples. Two of these were published by Eberhart Herrmann (Seltene Orientteppiche V, Munich, 1983, no.38, pp.148-9; Asiatische Teppich und Textilkunst 1, Munich, 1989, no.4, pp.88-9). The entry under the second of these lists five other known examples and their publication details.