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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN KELLEH
SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
Price
Realized £47,800 ($79,730)
Sale Information
Christie's SALE 6815 —
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
16 October
2003
London, King Street
LOT NOTES
Lot Description
A NORTH WEST PERSIAN KELLEH
Second
half 18th century
The indigo field with overall harshang design of
polychrome palmettes and linked hooked angular vine, in a rust-red border
of palmettes and flowering leafy vine between shaded sandy yellow floral
meander stripes, natural corrosion in the brown, localised areas of wear,
scattered areas of minor repiling, backing strips at both ends
18ft.9in. x 6ft. (570cm. x 183cm.)
Provenance
Anon sale, Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden, 10 November 1990, lot
174.
Literature
Hali, 55, February 1991, auction price guide, p.163 "One of
the most impressive examples of its kind we have seen".
Lot Notes
This kelleh has wonderfully preserved colours and is in exceptional
condition, taking its age into consideration. The spacing of the drawing
is also very well worked. A similar feeling of space is found in a rug
with the same field design but different border formerly in the McMullan
Collection and now in the Mertopolitan Museum of Art, New York (McMullan,
Joseph V.: Islamic Carpets, New York, 1965, no.27, pp.112-119). Another
good example but with a much more crowded field was in the Bortz
Collection, see Sotheby's London 29 May 1998, lot 21. For a discussion of
four late eighteenth and early 19th century contrasting appearances of the
harshang design please see Bensoussan, Pamela: "Four Harshang Pattern
Carpets in the Museée des Arts Decoratifs", Hali, vol.3, no.3,
pp.207-209).
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