Number 1290
Type Workshop
Material Wool
Style Flowery
Origin Kerman
Size 770 x 325
Age 1291 (1874)
XXL supercharged palatial carpet, designed and signed by the most eminent of all Qajar carpet weavers, Ostad Hossein Kermani. He was handpicked by Nassereddine Shahe Qajar in the 1860s to produce custom designed carpets for the Shah, the Qajar court, and the renovated Golestan Palace in Tehran. The present masterpiece seems to be one of those made for the palace and fits in perfectly with the 2 other surviving examples that are similar. It bears a beautiful and pristine rendition of the soon-to-be-famous ๐๐ผ๐น ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ด theme of brilliant blossoming rose flowers, for whose creation and adoption in Persian carpet art Hossein Kermani was solely responsible. It is very hard to attribute a design to one artist, especially prior to the mid 1900s, but in this case he left a hefty trail of evidence behind him.
Museum Grade.
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