Tebriz carpet (cotton warp and weft, wool pile), Northwest P - Lot 198

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Tebriz carpet (cotton warp and weft, wool pile), Northwest P - Lot 198
Tebriz carpet (cotton warp and weft, wool pile), Northwest Persia, circa 1930-1950 The carpet is decorated with an elegant polychrome stylized floral design on a blue background. The red border with a garland of multicoloured flowers is framed by numerous counter-borders. Due to its proximity to Turkish ports, Tebriz developed trade with Europe in a major way and thus became a major carpet production centre. From the end of the 18th century, large carpet factories were established there. The Tebriz carpets are characterized by a great quality and fineness of knotting and present very varied decorations: the classic decoration of the central medallion with four spandrels, the vase decoration, the herati decoration in full field, figurative or landscape decorations, the prayer rugs or the garden rugs. "In fact, there is a very large variety of Persian carpets: - The carpets of factories in which the models or cartoons are rewoven several times identically; a workshop master or "ustad" directs the work by chanting: "a red knot, a green knot, two blue knots, etc." It is no longer the creative work of a single craftsman that gives rise to the spirit of the carpet, but the technical prowess of the craftsman, the harmony of the cardboard and the colours, the quality of the wools that determine the beauty and the success of the carpet. Let us mention the masterpieces of the great masters of the Tabriz region (Djaffer, Hajji Jalil), or of Keschan (Mortashem), Kirman and Isfahan. - Carpets from village workshops (Senneh, Hamadan, Chiraz, Ferrahan) - Or weavings from nomadic tribes, such as the Khasgai from the region of Chiraz: the weaver creates his own model. () All materials are used throughout Persia: the warps can be made of sheep's wool, goat's hair, or even camel's hair, cotton, silk. Velvet can be knotted in wool or silk, cotton can also be used to enhance certain motifs. "1 This exceptional and majestic carpet, finely knotted, is decorated with numerous interlocking medallions, which accentuate the grandeur of this carpet. The small central medallion in the form of a sky-blue rosette is embellished by a second multi-lobed medallion on a navy blue background decorated with garlands of stylized flowers. The latter, itself inscribed in other slate blue, ivory, brick multi-lobed medallions extended by two ivory pendants, the whole decorated with four sky blue and navy blue spandrels. All these medallions are decorated with the herati motif. This motif consists of a lozenge formed by curved stems, which encloses a rosette and is topped by a palmette at each vertex, repeated ad infinitum, with four falciform leaves next to each other. This design adorned the Herat carpet (to which it owes its name). Bibliographical reference: Chevalier, D and de Pazzis-Chevalier, N, exhibition catalogue "Des tapis inoubliables", Galerie Chevalier, Paris, 1988, p.37 (stains and minor wear) 300 x 196 cm
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