Bachtiari Khan Carpet
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Ca. 1915, 195 x 141 cm, Western Central Persia
A mighty tree with flower-laden branches extending across the whole of the white field grows towards a sweeping flat arch at the top end of the field. The two dark blue spandrels above it are each filled with a large palmette. As is always the case in the fixed iconography of this type, two large flowering vases stand at the foot of the trunk. The design layout is strictly symmetrical in mirror image. The composition may have been modelled on the silk Kashan in the Tehran museum (see Azadi), presumably woven in the Mohtashem workshop, or an analogous piece. – We sold an almost identical example in 1987, which was later published in Ian Bennett’s article on Bakhtiari Khan carpets (see below). In that rug, the characteristic inscription ran across the entire width in an inscription band placed above the border finish. Here, the inscription is written in a rectangular cartouche placed at the centre of the upper horizontal border. It reads: "Hasab al amr farmayesh Aghaye Ali Akbar Khan amale Bakhtiari." Translation: By order of Ali Akbar Khan, the work of the Bakhtiari. – Very good condition, original finishes all around.
RIPPON BOSWELL, A 26, 14/11/1987, lot 89; A 63, 15/05/2004, lot 100; A 97, 30/11/2019, lot 83*** BENNETT, IAN, Carpets of the Khans, Part 1. In: HALI 43, 1989, p. 47, ill. 10 *** AZADI, SIAWOSCH ULRICH, Persian Carpets. Vol. 1. Tehran, Iran 1977, no. 21
A mighty tree with flower-laden branches extending across the whole of the white field grows towards a sweeping flat arch at the top end of the field. The two dark blue spandrels above it are each filled with a large palmette. As is always the case in the fixed iconography of this type, two large flowering vases stand at the foot of the trunk. The design layout is strictly symmetrical in mirror image. The composition may have been modelled on the silk Kashan in the Tehran museum (see Azadi), presumably woven in the Mohtashem workshop, or an analogous piece. – We sold an almost identical example in 1987, which was later published in Ian Bennett’s article on Bakhtiari Khan carpets (see below). In that rug, the characteristic inscription ran across the entire width in an inscription band placed above the border finish. Here, the inscription is written in a rectangular cartouche placed at the centre of the upper horizontal border. It reads: "Hasab al amr farmayesh Aghaye Ali Akbar Khan amale Bakhtiari." Translation: By order of Ali Akbar Khan, the work of the Bakhtiari. – Very good condition, original finishes all around.
RIPPON BOSWELL, A 26, 14/11/1987, lot 89; A 63, 15/05/2004, lot 100; A 97, 30/11/2019, lot 83*** BENNETT, IAN, Carpets of the Khans, Part 1. In: HALI 43, 1989, p. 47, ill. 10 *** AZADI, SIAWOSCH ULRICH, Persian Carpets. Vol. 1. Tehran, Iran 1977, no. 21
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