Ispahan carpet (cotton warp and weft, wool pile "kurk"), cen - Lot 215

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Ispahan carpet (cotton warp and weft, wool pile "kurk"), cen - Lot 215
Ispahan carpet (cotton warp and weft, wool pile "kurk"), central Persia, circa 1930 (Good condition.) Length : 163 cm ; Width : 110 cm This finely knotted carpet is decorated with a polylobed ivory mihrab with a large central flowering vase, animals and flowering trees with birds nesting. A red border with a garland of multicolored flowers surrounds the composition. The carpet is signed in a cartouche "The ancient capital of Sephardic Persia is one of the most monumentally rich cities in all of Iran. According to a Persian saying, Isfahan nesfe jaha, "Isfahan is the most beautiful city in the world" (...). The foundation of Isfahan goes back to a very ancient time. Its first name, Atran, was changed to Gabian by the Achaemenids who made it the seat of an important satrapy. The city continued to play an important role under the Sefevids and the Sassanids (...). In the 18th century, when the court moved to Isfahan, in addition to palaces and mosques, "Kharkhaneh" were built, i.e. royal workshops which included warehouses and factories fitted out to accommodate artists and craftsmen. Carpet factories occupied a large place and produced splendid models with floral designs, very often made of silk and precious threads (...). The tradition of weaving at home developed during the 18th and 19th centuries and its roots are so deep that it remains unchanged today. In each family, the women who stay at home have one or more looms on which they weave the carpets ordered by merchants who provide them with the design and the wool. (...). The carpets of Isfahan rarely have less than fourteen colors and three of them, characteristic, are always present: blue gray, ivory and red."
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