A KIRMAN PICTORIAL RUG

SOUTH EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1910

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A KIRMAN PICTORIAL RUG
SOUTH EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1910
Depicting the mythological subject, 'La Danse d'une nymphe', full pile, overall very good condition
8ft.4in. x 5ft.2in. (254cm. x 157cm.)

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Lot Essay

The design of this rug is taken directly from a Louis XIV Gobelins tapestry from the series 'Les Sujets de la Fable' after the drawings by Raphael. Depicting 'La Danse d'une nymphe', the festive and tambourine-playing putti is set within a flowering landscape, while its guardian deity Pomona is courted by Vertumnus in the guise of a faun playing the pipes of the fertility deity Pan.

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