Object Description
Fine Antique Tabriz Carpet
3.62 x 2.70 m
The city of Kashan, among the best-known and highly-ranked Persian rug-weaving centres, first rose to prominence in the 16th Century, under the Safavid Dynasty.
These workshops earned a reputation for producing many of the most highly sought-after rugs of the Classical period and continued their work into the early 20th Century. This Kashan carpet is a high-end workshop weaving of the 1930s – an elegant example, featuring unusual scrolling motifs over the ivory field, creating a subtle ton-sur-ton effect, possibly influenced by European carpets, and indicating that this piece was likely a special commission, produced for the export market, and soft cornflower blue and muted hazelnut accents in its wide border.
Despite dating to the 1930s, this rug has a surprisingly modern aesthetic sensibility – one especially attractive feature is the uniformity of colour across the field and the border, which is of an impressive width, lending the work a feeling of space and balance. Retained in very good practical condition for everyday use, with its borders preserved on all sides – the wool is of an exceptional quality, close to Merino.
A stylish carpet, with an understated elegance that would lend itself equally to a classic or contemporary interior – one of the most striking examples of its type that we have had the pleasure of adding to our collection in some time.