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Lot Essay
The knot count is 13H x 12V per cm. sq.
This carpet is very finely woven in silk on a silk foundation. Although it is not signed, the quality of weave, design and the intricate patterning within the metal-thread suggest that this carpet was produced by one of the great masters of the Armenian 'Koum Kapi' workshop in Istanbul. Indeed, the use of purple pink selvages, the drawing of the prayer arch and the cutting of the pile suggest that this could be the work of the master weaver, Zareh Penyamin. The design draws its influence from Persian Safavid ornament which can be seen in a multiple medallion carpet of 'Vase' type, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Arthur Upham Pope, A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford, 1938, pp.1236-7. A larger and less fine Koum Kapi carpet of similar design, was offered for sale Sotheby's, Dubai, 4 December, 1985, lot 269.
This carpet is very finely woven in silk on a silk foundation. Although it is not signed, the quality of weave, design and the intricate patterning within the metal-thread suggest that this carpet was produced by one of the great masters of the Armenian 'Koum Kapi' workshop in Istanbul. Indeed, the use of purple pink selvages, the drawing of the prayer arch and the cutting of the pile suggest that this could be the work of the master weaver, Zareh Penyamin. The design draws its influence from Persian Safavid ornament which can be seen in a multiple medallion carpet of 'Vase' type, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Arthur Upham Pope, A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford, 1938, pp.1236-7. A larger and less fine Koum Kapi carpet of similar design, was offered for sale Sotheby's, Dubai, 4 December, 1985, lot 269.