Antique Bakhtiari Gabbeh Rug

00606
Period
Circa 1930
Origin
Western Persia
Materials
Wool
Status
Available
Size
207 cm x 140 cm
6'9" x 4'7"

A strikingly abstract and minimalist composition, dominated by a large lozenge punctuated at its top end by a series of smaller blue lozenges, as if to indicate some sort of directional reading to the pattern. Although the substrate of certain Gabbeh patterns is, as here, clearly inspired by a more urban iconography, the interpretation given to the design is almost pictorial in character, bringing it closer to our contemporary western artistic sensibility.

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