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Sale: L05870 | Location: London
Auction Dates: Session 1: Wed, 27 Apr 05 2:00 PM
LOT 97
PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A KIRMAN CARPET, SOUTHEAST PERSIA,
40,000—60,000 GBP
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 62,400 GBP
MEASUREMENTS
approximately 296 by 196cm., 9ft. 8in. by 6ft. 5in.
DESCRIPTION
circa 1900
PROVENANCE
Sotheby's London, 23rd April 1997, lot 94
CATALOGUE NOTE
Knot density: vertical 14-15/cm
horizontal 11-12/cm
Whilst not inscribed, the present lot closely relates in
quality with another shawl piece signed by the
‘master weaver’, Ustad Ali Kirmani, see,
Sotheby’s London, 9 January 1980, lot 39, inscribed
‘Ordered by Reza Muhammad Khan Dilbaghani from the
factory of the Master Weaver Ali of Kerman’. The
flatter arrangement of plants in the composition of the
field of this above-mentioned piece lack the sense of
depth found in the present lot, illustrated by the
distance created between the cropped band of flowers in
the foreground, against the blue-green background of the
landscape. The two pieces, however, are characterised by
the same fineness of the drawing, both in the compact
profusion of boteh and flower heads in the spandrels and
borders, and in the naturally rendered shrubs and
flowering plants in the field.
For examples of carpets with almost identical (although
mirror-imaged) shawl design fields and borders, please
see; Sotheby’s Geneva, 14 November 1980, lot 80 and
Sotheby’s Dubai, 5 December, 1985, lot 85. For other
related examples by Ustad Ali Kirmani with different
field designs, see; Sotheby’s 24 April 1991, lot 205
and Sotheby’s 21 October 1992, lot 134.
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