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Tebriz carpet (cotton warp and weft, wool pile), North-West …
See original version (French)
249
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Tebriz carpet (cotton warp and weft, wool pile), North-West …
See original version (French)
Estimate €700 - €900
Voluntary lot
Description
Tebriz carpet (cotton warp and weft, wool pile), North-West Persia, circa 1960–1980.
250 x 168 cm
The carpet is adorned with a central polychrome, multi-lobed medallion, extended by two pendants on an ivory ground enhanced with a stylised floral design.
The entire composition is embellished with four dusky pink spandrels.
A dusky pink border featuring a succession of elongated medallions and floral medallions is framed by numerous counter-borders.
Good condition.
‘Owing to its proximity to Turkish ports, Tabriz significantly expanded its trade with Europe and thus became a major centre for carpet production. From the end of the 18th century onwards, large carpet workshops were established there. Tabriz carpets are characterised by their high quality and fine knotting, and feature a wide variety of designs: the classic central medallion with four spandrels, vase motifs, full-field Herati patterns, figurative or landscape motifs,
prayer rugs or garden rugs.
‘In fact, there is a very wide variety of Persian rugs: - Rugs from workshops where the designs or cartoons
are re-woven identically several times; a workshop master or ‘ustad’ directs the work by calling out: ‘one red knot, one green knot, two blue knots, etc…’
It is no longer the creative work of a single craftsman that gives the carpet its spirit, but rather the technical skill of the weaver, the harmony of the design and colours, and the quality of the wool that determine the carpet’s beauty and success. Examples include the masterpieces of the great masters from the Tabriz region (Djaffer, Hajji Jalil), or from Keschan (Mortashem), Kerman and Isfahan. - Carpets from village workshops (Senneh, Hamadan, Shiraz, Ferrahan…) -
Or weavings by nomadic tribes, such as the Khasgai of the Shiraz region: the weaver creates their own design. (…) All materials are used throughout Persia: the warp threads may be made of sheep’s wool, goat’s hair, or even camel hair, cotton or silk. The pile may be knotted from wool or silk, whilst cotton may also be used to highlight certain motifs’.
Bibliographical reference:
- Chevalier, D and de Pazzis-Chevalier, N, exhibition catalogue *Des tapis inoubliables*, Galerie Chevalier, Paris, 1988, p. 37.
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