{"id":1332,"date":"2025-04-18T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T03:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiquerugstudio.com\/blog\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2025-04-21T03:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T03:56:29","slug":"nw-persian-interpretation-of-indian-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiquerugstudio.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/18\/nw-persian-interpretation-of-indian-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Persian Interpretation of Indian\u00a0Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Northwest Persian Gallery Carpet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probably Kurdistan, Possibly Kolyai<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6\u20194\u201d x 15\u20198\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3rd<\/sup> quarter 18th<\/sup> Century<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This antique gallery format carpet is a particularly fine example of a select group of Kurdish carpets accurately interpreting a 17th<\/sup> century Mughal Indian Agra prototype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The abrashed and slightly corroded brown field displays a complex, dense allover one-way pattern of three blossom flowers, small palmettes and geometric rosettes connected by fractional split arabesques and broken vertical staves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the pattern seems to be textile-derived, in fact there are surviving Indian pile carpets with a virtually identical pattern.  Most salient are the split arabesques in ivory, yellow, red, and royal blue which delineate a quasi-lattice pattern.  The field is densely covered and there are no open areas.  The pattern is balanced in all directions, a sign of a skilled workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main navy border displays two types of palmettes, rosettes, and embracing pairs of lancet leaves, with matching ivory minor stripes of repeating, discrete squares of trefoiled double flowers.  These flowers appear exactly on contemporary Kirshehir Turkish rugs and later in the 19th<\/sup> century on Luri tribal rugs.<\/p>\n\n\n