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■*255
A MESHED CARPET
SIGNED MAKHMALBAF, NORTH EAST
PERSIA, CIRCA 1920
Of Safavid 'hunting' design, overall excellent
condition
■*254 18ft.3in. x 10ft.5in. (556cm. x 317cm.)
A LARGE KIRMAN CARPET £26,000-32,000 US$30,000-37,000
SOUTH EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
€30,000-37,000
Overall excellent condition
25ft.7in. x 13ft.10in. (780cm. x 422cm.) The signature cartouche reads, amal-e (the work
of) Makhmalbaf.
£20,000-25,000 US$24,000-29,000
€24,000-29,000
The weaver, Makhmalbaf had established a
The source for the elegant single-plane lattice successful carpet weaving workshop in Meshed
design of the present lot is a vase-technique towards the end of the great carpet revival in
fragment published by Friedrich Sarre from Iran in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
his own collection, (F. Sarre and H. Trenkwald, although he was perhaps not as well known as
Alt-Orientalische Teppiche: Herausgegeben Vom his contemporaries, Amoghli or Saber. All three of
Österreichischen Museum Für Kunst Und Industrie, these master weavers however were associated
Vienna and Leipzig, 1928, pl.8). with producing carpets of the very finest quality
using superior quality wool, dense and richly
saturated palettes, and intricate and complex
designs that were executed with a high knot
density. Held in high esteem by the Pahlavi shahs
and royalty, including Reza Shah, they were used
for the decoration of the grandest of houses and
palaces.

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