WORKSHOP OF HAGOP KAPOUDJIAN, PROBABLY FRANCE, CIRCA 1925

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FIVE ORIGINAL HAND-DRAWN RUG CARTOONS
WORKSHOP OF HAGOP KAPOUDJIAN, PROBABLY FRANCE, CIRCA 1925
Translucent pigments on graph paper, comprising sections from the field of two different rugs designs including a floral lattice with animals, laid down on wooden boards and pierced in the corners, the versos numbered, mounted, framed and glazed
The largest 6 3/8 x 20 ½in. (16.1 x 52.2cm.)

Provenance

George Farrow, personal catalogue, 1998

Engraved

Hagop's name and initials appear in black Armenian script along the lower edge of one of these designs

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Lot Essay

Mounted on wooden boards and pierced in the corners, these cartoons were the working copies which would have been tied to the looms while the weavers worked. They were numbered on the back, suggesting that once they had completed a particular section, the weavers could ask their overseer (ousta) to bring them the following numbered section.

The depiction of animals in a densely-filled field of scrolling vines is a common feature of Hagop's weaving. However, the two cartoons in this group displaying part of a lobed medallion, are particularly relatable to the horizontally-woven rug woven by Hagop Kapoudjian for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, offered as lot 178 in the present sale.

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