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576 x 199 cm // 18ft 11" x 6ft 6" (max size)
These rare carpets appear to have a design affiliation and structural resemblances with late classical ' Vase ' carpets of the later Saffavid era . In the political disruptions of the post Nadir Shah period of the second quarter of the 18th cent weavers may have moved west to the mountainous NW regions of Kurdistan and greater Azerbaijan . What is seen here is a carpet from the very early modern era and prior to the better known close-by later Bijar and Garrus carpets and distinct from the later urban ' Senneh ' style from Sanandaj.
The overall pile condition is very good apart from four [4] small patches and small reweave in side border - photographed. One of these patches appear to come from a carpet of the same type from which one might extrapolate that this carpet may be a part of a Khan's Audience suite of carpets comprising of a triptych with two runners or a set of four carpets which are quite well known from Bijar but not so from Sanandaj
• early 19th C (post-classical era)
Ref. 18321
