The Alberto Levi
harshang palmette Saujbulagh Kurd
A carpet with harshang palmettes
Kurds of the Saujbulagh area
Northwest Persia
Circa 1850
330 x 165 cm (10'10" x 5'5")
Symmetrically knotted wool pile on a wool
foundation
Carpets decorated with the harshang pattern
and woven in the kelleh format represent one the
main typologies of the transitional period of
Persian weaving in the eighteenth century. This
early Kurdish carpet exhibits a tribal
interpretation of the design, composed of three
large poly-lobed palmettes contained within
lozenges from which pairs of split leaf
arabesques blossom. The yellow background is
punctuated by a series of motifs characteristic
of Kurdish tribal rugs.
Bibliography: Alberto
Levi, 'Renewal and Innovation: Iconographic
Influences on Kurdish Carpet Design', Hali, vol.
15, no. 4 (London, August - September 1993):
84-93.
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