Antique Uzbekistan Samarkand Rug

Rug #1019
Size: 264 x 178 cm / 8.7 x 5.8 ft
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Antique Uzbekistan Samarkand Rug Pictorial Fine Wool Pile

This Uzbekistan Samarkand rug is published in;

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

pl. 363, p. 440.

When looking at this rug it is interesting to remember the Bijar rug with lions illustrated as Plate 224. Very much the same style is evident here: even the ground colour is similar. As we said there, the best known rugs of this this type are the thick gabbeh weaves of Fars, which are usually attributed to the Qashqai. At first glance this appears to be an example of the latter, even to the extent that whereas as lions, an animal indigenous to Persia until hunted to extinction in the late 19th-century, would be expected to appear on tribal and village rugs (especially given its religious and imperial symbolism), tigers which do not appear to have been found in Iran within the historical record, are also found on gabbehs. This early 20th-century example, however, despite its similarities to certain groups of Persian village and tribal rugs, is in fact from the Xinjian (East Turkestan). There is a tendency in both literature and the more traditional elements of the rug trade to refer to such pieces as Samarkand, although as far as is known, rugs were never woven in that city – another example of the triumph of romance over fact. This rug was almost certainly woven in Hetjen, the modern name for Khotan, one of the celebrated desert weaving cities on the silk road.

 

 

 

Antique Uzbekistan Samarkand Rug. This piece was handwoven in Uzbekistan. 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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