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| Keywords: Kerman ‘vase’ carpet fragment, southeast Persia, early 17th century.jpg en Size 2 86 x 2 05m 9 ™5 x 6 ™9 Estimate £250 000-350 000 The second piece a large well balanced field and border section assigned to the early 17th century and symmetrically cut from the original sometime in the 19th is particularly finely woven and in wonderful condition It is estimated at just £250 000-350 000 With huge classic vase carpet palmettes and blossoms on a rich red-ground topped by a broad blue-ground strap-work border it represents a significant but previously unrecorded part of a well-known dismembered grand red-ground Kerman carpet or perhaps a matched pair of carpets At least another dozen fragments large and small survive in museum collections in Boston London Paris Lyons Copenhagen Glasgow St Petersburg Berlin and Doha The fragment now in Doha is the only other piece to appear on the auction market in recent times when it made just over a quarter of a million dollars at CLO in April 2011 HALI 168 p 139 http //www hali com/news/alice-de-rothschilds-vase-carpet-trio-christies/ Christies photograph Made by unknown Kerman weavers early 17th century PD-old-100 17th-century carpets Safavid carpets Rothschild family Christie's London Files uploaded by PDTillman PD-old-100 | ||||
