Tabriz Benlian Carpet

Name: Tabriz Benlian Carpet
SKU: 785
Availability: InStock

Rug #785

Size: 380 x 287 cm / 12.5 x 9.4 ft

Handwoven in: Tabriz, Iran

Age: Mid 20th Century

Design: Allover design, Animals, Floral

Materials: Fine Wool Pile

Category: Rugs & Carpets

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Tabriz Benlian Carpet Allover design | Animals | Floral Fine Wool Pile

This Persian Tabriz carpet is published in;

THE PERSIAN CARPET, ‘The Fabric of Life’, Essie Sakhai, Woodbridge, 2008.

pl. 130, p. 193.

This Tabriz carpet from the early-20th century is signed ‘Benlian’ in monogram. Benlian rugs are recognisable through the tiny star-shaped cartouche with internal monogram almost always found in one corner of the field in the inner guard border (here the lower left corner). The workshop was founded between the two World Wars and was an Anglo-Iranian firm; it lasted in the same family’s ownership until the 1960s (Edward Benlian died in London in the 1970s and the contents of his home, including seeveral carpets, were sold at auction in situ). Although the individual motifs on this carpet are quite traditional, including the pairs of animals, one attacking the other, what is unusual – though quite typical of the Benlian workshop – is the palette, especially the brilliant peacock blue used extensively to highlight many of the floral elements.

Tabriz Benlian Carpet. This piece was handwoven in Tabriz , Iran. This is a magnificent and unique Tabriz Carpet from the Anglo-Iranian Benlian workshop.

For further information please contact us and our team will be pleased to assist you. All pieces in the collection are under the auspices of Essie Sakhai, one of the world’s foremost experts and collectors of fine handmade Persian rugs and carpets.

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