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17
Early and very fine Silk Joshegan
New
174 x 146 cm (5' 9" x 4' 9")
Persia, ca. 1800
Condition: good according to age, mostly good pile, some abrasions in the right border, signs of use at sides and ends, extremely soft handle
Published: 1) "Seltene Orientteppiche V", Eberhart Herrmann, 1983, plate 58
2) "Antike Orientteppiche aus österr. Privatbesitz", TKF, 1986, plate 98
3) HALI 137, p. 83
Warp: silk, weft: silk, pile: silk
For many connoisseurs, this carpet is considered one of the most beautiful surviving silk carpets. Moreover, it represents an important transitional piece, bridging the Safavid golden age of carpet art with that of the 19th century.
In the emperor's bedchamber in the Red Fort in Delhi (1639-1648), there is a gilded ceiling decorated with a lozenge lattice pattern, whose original inspiration may have come from Europe (cf. D. Walker, 'Flowers Underfoot', p. 89; 'Teppiche', pp. 106, 112, 124). An Indian carpet in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Inv. No. IS 244-1964, from the second half of the 17th century, displays floral motifs that can be seen as precursors to those in the present piece.
At the end of the 17th and into the 18th century, this pattern - also through Kashmiri textiles - reached Kirman in Persia.
In F. R. Martin's 'The Oriental Carpet Before 1800', a large Persian carpet with a red ground, formerly in the author's possession, is illustrated. It shows a similar lozenge lattice with floral bouquets and is dated to around 1750.
While the field design may possibly originate from India, the stunning white border of our carpet is clearly of Persian origin. One of the field motifs is identifiable as a floral bouquet, while the second, herringbone-like motif, only reveals itself through one or two levels of abstraction - as a stylized form.
This brings us to the tomb of Shah Abbas II. and its decoration with silk carpets (HALI 200, p. 153 ff.). An inscription on these carpets indicates that they were made in Joshegan. Naturalistic representations of cypress trees, surrounded by floral vines, explain the pattern and reveal the herringbone motif as an abstracted tree.
Carpets from the transitional period between the Safavid era and the later manufactory production are rarer than the classical pieces. When they also possess such high aesthetic quality as the present one, they were already highly sought after in 1985. Upon its first publication by Eberhart Herrmann, this carpet was priced at 85,000 DM.
Estimate: € 40000 - 60000
Persia, ca. 1800
Condition: good according to age, mostly good pile, some abrasions in the right border, signs of use at sides and ends, extremely soft handle
Published: 1) "Seltene Orientteppiche V", Eberhart Herrmann, 1983, plate 58
2) "Antike Orientteppiche aus österr. Privatbesitz", TKF, 1986, plate 98
3) HALI 137, p. 83
Warp: silk, weft: silk, pile: silk
For many connoisseurs, this carpet is considered one of the most beautiful surviving silk carpets. Moreover, it represents an important transitional piece, bridging the Safavid golden age of carpet art with that of the 19th century.
In the emperor's bedchamber in the Red Fort in Delhi (1639-1648), there is a gilded ceiling decorated with a lozenge lattice pattern, whose original inspiration may have come from Europe (cf. D. Walker, 'Flowers Underfoot', p. 89; 'Teppiche', pp. 106, 112, 124). An Indian carpet in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Inv. No. IS 244-1964, from the second half of the 17th century, displays floral motifs that can be seen as precursors to those in the present piece.
At the end of the 17th and into the 18th century, this pattern - also through Kashmiri textiles - reached Kirman in Persia.
In F. R. Martin's 'The Oriental Carpet Before 1800', a large Persian carpet with a red ground, formerly in the author's possession, is illustrated. It shows a similar lozenge lattice with floral bouquets and is dated to around 1750.
While the field design may possibly originate from India, the stunning white border of our carpet is clearly of Persian origin. One of the field motifs is identifiable as a floral bouquet, while the second, herringbone-like motif, only reveals itself through one or two levels of abstraction - as a stylized form.
This brings us to the tomb of Shah Abbas II. and its decoration with silk carpets (HALI 200, p. 153 ff.). An inscription on these carpets indicates that they were made in Joshegan. Naturalistic representations of cypress trees, surrounded by floral vines, explain the pattern and reveal the herringbone motif as an abstracted tree.
Carpets from the transitional period between the Safavid era and the later manufactory production are rarer than the classical pieces. When they also possess such high aesthetic quality as the present one, they were already highly sought after in 1985. Upon its first publication by Eberhart Herrmann, this carpet was priced at 85,000 DM.
Estimate: € 40000 - 60000