Qashqa’i Kashkuli
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Very finely woven using purple silk wefts, this Qashqa’i is the work of a Kashkuli tribal group living in the vicinity of Firuzabad. A minutely drawn Herati repeat fills both the field and the dark blue spandrels which are separated from the field by stepped diagonals decorated with hooks. The design owes its name to the East Persian city of Herat, where it can be traced back to the 17th century and from where it spread all over Persia. Here it is drawn in the angular style of Farahan rugs. Five narrow borders surround the field. – The products of the skilled Kashkuli weavers were rated as prestigious objects in Persia and were popular among the upper class. They were probably woven in the khans’ workshops. Herrmann published an almost identical carpet in 1986. – Minimal damage to the edges, very well preserved.
HERRMANN, EBERHART, Seltene Orientteppiche VIII. Munich 1986, no. 73
RIPPON BOSWELL, A 92, 25 November 2017, lot 33
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