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| Keywords: Kerman ‘vase’ carpet, southeast Persia, late 17th century.jpg en The three “ a complete small carpet; a large field and top border section of an enormous fragmented carpet; and the entire field and inner guard border of a mid-size carpet  “ while each very different in design are in good colour and condition having been in storage for many years They all share the same intriguing provenance in the British branch of the Rothschild banking dynasty first the socialite Alice de Rothschild d 1922 sometime chatelaine of Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire; then on to her chosen heir the British philanthropist and politician James Jimmy de Rothschild who bequeathed Waddesdon and its contents to the National Trust on his death in 1957 ; and thence by descent probably via his widow Dorothy Dolly who died in 1988 to the present noble consignor The three vase carpets were evidently not part of the Waddesdon Bequest and were likely to have been kept if not much seen in another Rothschild family home in the Vale of Aylesbury perhaps Alice and later Dolly ™s nearby property at Eythrope Unfortunately no documentation concerning Alice ™s acquisition of the carpets or their prior provenance survives The first of the trio complete with just minor damage is assigned to the late 17th century Not altogether surprisingly estimated at £1 000 000-1 500 000 it is very close in design and colour to the somewhat larger Behague/Augsburg vase carpet now in Doha that sold at King Street in April 2010 for what was then a world record price for an oriental carpet at auction of more than 9 5 million; doubtless a catalyst for the current consignment HALI 164 p 127 It differs only in size choice of narrow guard borders and the fact that part way through the beautifully abrashed mid-blue field of the Rothschild rug the complex articulation of the lancet-leaf lattice becomes elegantly simplified with less floral infill 1 51 x 2 51m 5 ™0 x 8 ™3 estimate £1 000 000-1 500 000 http //www hali com/news/alice-de-rothschilds-vase-carpet-trio-christies/ Christies catalog Rug unknown Safavid weavers late 17th century 17th-century art Safavid carpets Rothschild family Christie's Files uploaded by PDTillman PD-Art | ||||
