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Qajar Castelli Garden Carpet

Qajar Castelli Garden Carpet

  • Number SOLD

  • Type Workshop

  • Material Wool

  • Origin Kerman

  • Style Tree

  • Size 498 x 363

  • Age 1890

Story

The twin to this magnificent Garden Carpet remains in the Golestan Palace in Tehran, previously in the collection of the Qajar Shahs. It is an astounding composition with concentric layered compartments of blossoming fruit trees radiate outwards from the center in ornate rhomboid formation. The dye materials are surreal and present a Greatest Hits of the light spectrum. Perfect condition with lush, full pile. At the bottom we see the signature of Sadeghiani & Castelli, a very important name in Persian carpet history. Nearco Castelli of Venice travelled to the Orient in 1887 and set up carpet weaving workshops in Smyrna and Kerman. The rugs of Castelli Bros are an early fusion of high class European taste with classical Persian sensibilities.

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