A QASHQAI RUG

The ‘Mother and Child’ (Jegai) botehs are locally nicknamed Aftabeh’ie or ‘ewer’ botehs, (C.Parham, Masterpieces of Fars Rugs, Tehran, 1996, (pl.35). The arrangement on the present lot is particularly well spaced, with just three rows of four right-facing boteh, unlike some, where as many as ten rows of boteh have been squeezed in, as seen on a blue-ground carpet with ten rows of left-facing botehs which sold in Sotheby's, New York, 10 December 1992, lot 33. A closely related white-ground rug with four rows of right-facing botehs, attributed to the Qashqa’i but most probably Khamseh, sold at Lefevre in London on 25 April 1980, lot 36.