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Fragment of a Persian Garden Carpet
New
200 x 137 cm (6' 7" x 4' 6")
Persia, ca. 1800 or before
Condition: fragment, reduced in length and width, low pile, one inserted piece of another carpet, scattered small repairs, signs of use
Warp: cotton, weft: cotton, pile: wool
Garden carpets featuring the Chahar Bagh ("four gardens") design were woven in southern Persia in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Among the few surviving examples, the most magnificent is the one discovered in 1937 in a sealed storeroom of an abandoned palace belonging to the Maharajas of Jaipur. It was not until 2012 that this carpet was first fully illustrated (HALI 171, pp. 66-68). Depicted in a highly naturalistic manner, the carpet presents a garden from a bird's-eye view, complete with watercourses and a pavilion standing amidst the water. Various animals, including mythical creatures, populate this paradisiacal scene.
After a hiatus of about one hundred years, garden carpets were again woven in Kurdistan during the 18th century, although production ceased in the early 19th century. These carpets can be divided into two groups: one continues the bird's-eye perspective with water channels, while the other reduces the garden representation symbolically to single floral motifs within square compartments. Only a few pieces from this second group have survived. An example offered at Rippon Boswell shows, like our carpet, flowers arranged horizontally (Auction 104, Lot 155).
The better-known carpet in Berlin follows the same scheme (see Spuhler, The Oriental Carpets in the Museum of Islamic Art, p. 247), whereas page 231 of the same book illustrates an example from the first group, featuring watercourses. A complete carpet of the so-called "cassette" group is shown in black and white in HALI 5/1, p. 57, where a diagonal color arrangement can be discerned.
Our carpet was advertised by Richard Golden Jr. in HALI 78, p. 119.
By the late 19th century, the garden motif reappears once again, this time in Heriz and other workshop carpets.
Estimate: € 10000 - 15000
Persia, ca. 1800 or before
Condition: fragment, reduced in length and width, low pile, one inserted piece of another carpet, scattered small repairs, signs of use
Warp: cotton, weft: cotton, pile: wool
Garden carpets featuring the Chahar Bagh ("four gardens") design were woven in southern Persia in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Among the few surviving examples, the most magnificent is the one discovered in 1937 in a sealed storeroom of an abandoned palace belonging to the Maharajas of Jaipur. It was not until 2012 that this carpet was first fully illustrated (HALI 171, pp. 66-68). Depicted in a highly naturalistic manner, the carpet presents a garden from a bird's-eye view, complete with watercourses and a pavilion standing amidst the water. Various animals, including mythical creatures, populate this paradisiacal scene.
After a hiatus of about one hundred years, garden carpets were again woven in Kurdistan during the 18th century, although production ceased in the early 19th century. These carpets can be divided into two groups: one continues the bird's-eye perspective with water channels, while the other reduces the garden representation symbolically to single floral motifs within square compartments. Only a few pieces from this second group have survived. An example offered at Rippon Boswell shows, like our carpet, flowers arranged horizontally (Auction 104, Lot 155).
The better-known carpet in Berlin follows the same scheme (see Spuhler, The Oriental Carpets in the Museum of Islamic Art, p. 247), whereas page 231 of the same book illustrates an example from the first group, featuring watercourses. A complete carpet of the so-called "cassette" group is shown in black and white in HALI 5/1, p. 57, where a diagonal color arrangement can be discerned.
Our carpet was advertised by Richard Golden Jr. in HALI 78, p. 119.
By the late 19th century, the garden motif reappears once again, this time in Heriz and other workshop carpets.
Estimate: € 10000 - 15000