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Shirvan Rugs: Four Harshang Derivative Village Rugs

Here is an Article done by one of our readers. Unfortunately two of the pictures were lost. JBOC

Here are four rugs from a very small group of six known rugs for which I have made close up to permit everybody to do easy comparisons. The four rugs are here in enclosure.

They are so closely related in design that I think that:

1/ they come from the same village
2/ were woven during the first half of the 19th century
3/ the Sotheby's rug (#1) seems for me the earliest example.

Oriental Rugs: Four Harshang Derivative Village Rugs

Rug – 1 –

Hali 91 page 76 Sotheby's NY auction April 10 1997
A Transcaucasian rug
Circa 1800
4'3'' x 7'4'' 1.30m x 2.24m
Estimated $10.000-15.000

Rug – 2 –

The Caucasus : Tradition in Weaving plate 14 James D Burns Collection

South Caucasian Circa 1800 3'2'' x 6'3'' 0.97m x 1.91m

Structural analyses:

Pile: wool symmetrical knot V9 H7 63 per sq. in.

Warp: wool, natural brown, ivory Z4S, very irregular offset from 10° to as much 30°

Weft: cotton, ivory, ranges considerably in thickness, 2 shoots.

Detail - Larger image lost

Rug –3 -

Oriental Rugs from Atlantic Collections
Philadelphia 1996 Eight ICOC several contributing authors
Plate 116 page 111
Labeled: Azerbaijani Rug
North Western Iran or southern Caucasus
Circa 1800 or earlier
4'8'' x 7'4''
A small number of rugs of this type are known, of which this is probably the oldest….they are clearly derived from Safavid carpet, yet have features that reappear in further abstracted forms throughout North Western Iran and the Caucasus.…
Structural analyses:
Warp: wool, ivory, Z2S, level
Weft: red wool , Z2S
Pile: wool, 2Z spun strand
Knot: symmetrical, V10 H 8 80/sq. inch.
Handle: flexible

Rug –4 –

Orient Stars Heinrich Kircheim plate 16 page 31
Labeled: Azerbaijan Harshang Design Carpet
Eastern Caucasus or North West Persia
Early 19th century
139cm x 243 cm
A particular descendant of the classical Harshang design. The palette of rich, powerful colors, including the reddish golden yellow field and a green tending towards olive, is of special note.

Here we see a set of close ups where Daniel sees the primary design similarity.