2614

AGE & ORIGIN:
Late 19th C.
Persia

OVERVIEW:
A very Caucasian-coded Kurdish village rug with everything we’ve come to expect from these types. Just an amazing and relatively progressive use of spacing, creativity and color. The first thing to catch the eye is the field color. Almost like a ripe peach with the texture to match in shade and abrash. Upon this is built the three monolithic memling medallions, each displaying their own varied motifs. The bottom, a classic latchook turkic design. The central, again using a latchook, but this time enveloping a striking almost fish-bone double-arrow. And finally the third, a stepped void repeated (albeit in a diminutive fashion) within the final auxiliary double memlings.
Incredibly simple, well-coordinated and unforgettable, the height of Kurdish rugs.

CONDITION:
Worn with damaged areas limited to borders

5953

AGE & ORIGIN:
c. 1900
Persia

OVERVIEW:
Occasionally there are rugs we come across whose true form lies within its borders, as is the case with this particular Afshar. While the field has elements of the more tribal aspects of Afshar rugs (i.e. more primitive forms of general Persian motifs) all done in natural dyes, the focus and star of this rug is the repeating, so-called ‘Mother-Child’ boteh border.
Each motif is centered on a cypress tree being flanked on either side by a larger, blue “mother” boteh and mirrored, smaller, red “child” boteh. This motif spread on a nearly black-blue border is striking and is very much the centerpiece of the rug (though maybe not literally so).

CONDITION:
Evenly worn across field