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Lot 152
A TABRIZ CARPET
SIGNED QALI-BAFIYAN VA MAHMUD JABBARZADA, NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1940
Closed29 January 2019
Price Realised
GBP 8,750
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Specialist note
The signature in the small stellar cartouche reads: sherkat-e qali-bafiyan va mahmud jabbarzada.
A near identical Tabriz carpet woven by the same weavers was sold in the Barratt Collection - Crowe Hall, Bath, Christie's, London, 16 December 2010, lot 243. A further carpet by the same workshop, displaying a design copied directly from the Portuguese Carpet in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, (see Friedrich Sarre and Hermann Trenkwald, Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna/Leipzig, 1926/28, vol.I, pl.33), was sold at Christie's, London, 5 April 2011, lot 106.
A near identical Tabriz carpet woven by the same weavers was sold in the Barratt Collection - Crowe Hall, Bath, Christie's, London, 16 December 2010, lot 243. A further carpet by the same workshop, displaying a design copied directly from the Portuguese Carpet in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, (see Friedrich Sarre and Hermann Trenkwald, Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna/Leipzig, 1926/28, vol.I, pl.33), was sold at Christie's, London, 5 April 2011, lot 106.