Antique Dramatic Bakhshaish Carpet
N°
00012
Period
Circa 1870
Origin
Northwest Persia
Materials
Wool
Status
Available
Size
382 cm x 267 cm12'6" x 8'9"
The subtly changing sky-blue background of this fascinating carpet, obtained by means of a number of abrashes, creates the impression of a sea on which floats a sun-like lozenge, spangled by polychrome rosettes. The refined primitivism of certain carpet typologies from northwest Persia is often the result of a fusion between the abstract tribal tradition and the more cultured one derived from the sophisticated urban ateliers.
Antique Textile Art, n.7, p.17.