Number SOLD
Type Workshop
Material Wool
Style All Over
Origin Kerman
Size 204 x 123
Age 1307 (1889)
Immaculate garden masterpiece designed, signed and woven by the illustrious Grand Master Ostad Hossein Kermani, court weaver to Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar. He was responsible for a series of spectacular and elaborate flowery carpets woven across a 30 year period for the Shah's palaces, specifically during the renovation of the Golestan Palace in Tehran, from the 1860s to the 1880s.
This intricate artwork is a perfect example of his third phase when his career as the preeminent Qajar artist was firmly established. It reflects his more mature and refined style in his later years. The knot count and materials are correspondingly finer.
This remarkable piece is dated 1301 or 1307 Hijri (1883 or 1889) and is an example of his later style characterized by finer knotting, softer tones and a more detailed patterning. Only two others of this style are known, both from the 1880s also. One is an exact copy dated 1306 (1888) in a private French collection, commissioned by the Shah’s cousin Prince Farman Farma. The other has an equally royal provenance and belongs to the Qajar dynasty collection, currently in the Carpet Museum of Iran in Tehran; it is dated 1885.
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