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■*246 pl.31, colour detail, or S.Troll, Altorientalische Teppiche, Vienna, 1951, pl.16, for
A PETAG TABRIZ CARPET the full fragment in B/W). This also has scrolling yellow and red interlaced
■*245 NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1920 arabesques enclosing floral sprays, but is stiffer and more regimented
A PETAG TABRIZ CARPET In overall excellent condition in concept, lacking the grace of the drawing in the Bernheimer example.
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1920 16ft.3in. x 11ft.5in. (496cm. x 348cm.) The Vienna border is again of the same design and colouring but also
Of Safavid 'vase' design, a cintamani signature to the top right-hand corner, scale black and white, and more importantly, some colour illustrations, of £25,000-35,000 US$29,000-40,000 encompassing floral scrolls, the arabesques being less delicately handled.
light surface dirt, overall very good condition magnificent Safavid and Ottoman carpets. Publications such as A History
€29,000-40,000
13ft.1in. x 10ft.6in. (398cm. x 320cm.) of Oriental Carpets before 1800, by F.R. Martin, Stockholm, 1908; Friedrich Also related in design, and also on a similar blue ground, are two fragments
Sarre's, Orientalische Teppiche, Vienna, 1892, and Alt-Orientalische The design of this striking PETAG carpet is a direct copy of one of the most formerly in the McMullan Collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum of
£10,000-15,000 US$12,000-17,000
Teppiche, by F. Sarre and Herrman Trenkwald, Vienna, 1926, gave the magnificent Safavid Kirman 'vase' carpet designs woven. A well documented Art, New York (J.V. McMullan, Islamic Carpets, New York, 1965, nos.20 and
€12,000-17,000
workshop access, for the first time, to the great 16th and 17th century fragment of an original 'vase' carpet, displaying the same sky-blue ground 21, pp.90-91). Another fragment which could be from the same carpet is in
The PETAG workshop (Persische Teppiche A.G.), was a German initiative carpet designs. with scrolling interlaced sandy yellow and burgundy scrolling split palmette the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no. 1825-1888). The original from which
founded in Berlin in 1911. Guided by the scholar Heinrich Jacoby, author arabesques overlaying a variety of delicate floral sprays, within a burgundy these fragments came (assuming they are all from the same carpet), lays the
of “Eine Sammlung Orientalischer Teppiche”, Berlin, 1923, amongst other The present directional lozenge 'vase' pattern can be seen on a carpet formerly border of interlaced indigo and ivory arabesques was formerly in the freely scrolling arabesques, similar to those in the present fragment, over
works, a large workshop was opened in Tabriz. The carpets are identified by in the Baltimore Museum of Art and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Bernheimer Family Collection, sold in these Rooms, 14 October 1996, lot tendrils which issue large palmettes and flowerheads similar to those seen in
the use of a particularly high quality, lustrous wool, the natural vegetal dyes Art, New York (M. S. Dimand. & J.Mailey, Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan 150. Both the colours and the design are exemplary. It is in remarkably full the better represented 'vase and palmette trellis' carpets woven in the same
and their distinctive 'signature' formed of three çintamani roundels generally Museum of Art, New York, 1973, fig.103). This particular overall repeat pattern pile, which makes it all the more remarkable that no other fragments of technique. This link between the more usual and the arabesque designs on
located in the far corner of the field or border pattern. At the end of the was highly adaptable when weaving carpets of varying proportions as seen in this carpet have survived to the present day. The closest comparable piece 'vase' carpets is demonstrated more dramatically by a red-ground example in
19th century/early 20th century, there were a number of highly important three examples sold at Christie's, London, 1 May 2003, lot 48; New York, 12 is a fragment in the Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna (E. Sarre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (M.S Dimand and J. Bailey, Oriental Rugs in
publications on the history of Oriental carpets which included large- December 2006, lot 123 and London 28 October 2020, lot 191. H. Trenkwald, Alt-Orientalische Teppiche, Vienna, 1926-28, Vol.II, pl.8, vol.I, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, no.37, fig.104, p.74).

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