Auth: Antique Mohtashem Persian Rug Important Collectors Pc Magnificent Carpet
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Auth: Antique Mohtashem Kashan Rug Important Collectors Pc Magnificent Carpet.
A ‘Mohtashem’ Kashan Rug, Central Persia, Wool on Cotton Foundation.
Description:The rose red field with a central dark blue lobed cartouche medallion flanked by similar pale blue medallions supported by angular vines linking flower heads and fan palmettes issuing flower heads and leaves within a blue palmette, flower head roundel and continuous angular flowering vine border.
DateCirca 1910....
Length56.5” x 40.25”
Extra NotesThe reverse knotting detail and style of design confirms this to be of the origin as stated. The city of Kashan is an historically important centre for the production of decorative formal designed rugs displaying floral patterns drawn in a curvilinear style based on a Persian city workshop tradition dating back to the early 16th Century. However, the pattern drawing on this rug is clearly angular in style. This angular drawing is associated with Kashan workshops influenced by the work of a known designer ‘Mohtashem’ who is known to have worked in the latter years of the 19th Century and early years of the 20th Century. Mohtashem style rugs are also finely knotted with high knot count. The piles are close cropped, and the colours as seen here are consistent with Mohtashem, the tones of which suggest that this rug was probably made in the first decade of the 20th Century. Naturally due to age and close cropping of the pile there are signs of wear through use. This is a good decorative example of type and origin.
Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.
A ‘Mohtashem’ Kashan Rug, Central Persia, Wool on Cotton Foundation.
Description:The rose red field with a central dark blue lobed cartouche medallion flanked by similar pale blue medallions supported by angular vines linking flower heads and fan palmettes issuing flower heads and leaves within a blue palmette, flower head roundel and continuous angular flowering vine border.
DateCirca 1910....
Length56.5” x 40.25”
Extra NotesThe reverse knotting detail and style of design confirms this to be of the origin as stated. The city of Kashan is an historically important centre for the production of decorative formal designed rugs displaying floral patterns drawn in a curvilinear style based on a Persian city workshop tradition dating back to the early 16th Century. However, the pattern drawing on this rug is clearly angular in style. This angular drawing is associated with Kashan workshops influenced by the work of a known designer ‘Mohtashem’ who is known to have worked in the latter years of the 19th Century and early years of the 20th Century. Mohtashem style rugs are also finely knotted with high knot count. The piles are close cropped, and the colours as seen here are consistent with Mohtashem, the tones of which suggest that this rug was probably made in the first decade of the 20th Century. Naturally due to age and close cropping of the pile there are signs of wear through use. This is a good decorative example of type and origin.
Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.
