Antique Bakshaish Rugs and Carpets

Bakshaish Carpets

These rugs fit into my Persian Rugs the O'Connell Guides section and are grouped with rugs woven in a particular style and time frame in the Heriz area.

The Heriz Rug producing area has gone through a number of name changes over the years. At one point the region was known as the Khanate of Serab. After that the region was called Bakshaish. It is possible that the town of Bakshaish was the administrative center of the District. It is also possible that the district and the region takes it name from a person or group of people.

Heinrich Jacoby the great German Rug Expert wrote in 1949 that Heriz rugs and Bakshaish rugs could be distinguished from similar rugs elsewhere in Persia by their "soft coloring" which he attributed to the local water. It is virtually certain that the coloration is influenced by the copper in the ground water in the greater Heriz region. Jacoby also mentioned that Gorevans and Bakshaish carpets were coarser than Heriz rugs and that they had large wefts almost the size of the warps but Heriz used thick warps with much thinner wefts. 

Antique Bakshaish Sampler Persian Rug from Nazmiyal

Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakshaish Rug circa 1800 Sotheby's Lot 106

Note on Color - In this rug we see the soft colors that we expect with trace copper in the water. The reds are subdued but the greens come out great. This rug with the same dyes but using the water of the Caucasus would look very different.

Bakshaish Carpets

• Antique Bakshaish  Persian Rug from Nazmiyal 41787
• Antique Bakshaish  Persian Rug from Nazmiyal 42860
• Antique Bakshaish  Persian Rug from Nazmiyal 44644
• Antique Bakshaish Sampler Persian Rug from Nazmiyal
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakhshaish Birds & Trees Carpet c. 1880 Lot 145
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakhshaish Mina Khani Carpet c. 1880 Lot 167
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakhshaish Oatmeal Ground Tree Carpet c. 1880 Lot 271
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakhshaish Herati Carpet c. 1880 Lot 132
• Bakhshaish Rugs: A Bakshaish carpet, 4th Quarter 19th lot 133
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakhshaish Camel Ground Tree Carpet c. 1890 Lot 177
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakshaish Carpet late 19th C.

• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakshaish Carpet c. 1800 Sotheby's lot 177
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakshaish Rug circa 1800 Sotheby's Lot 106
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakhshaish Rug with Zoomorphic Motifs c. 1870
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakshaish Carpet c. 1875 Sotheby's lot 242
• Bakhshaish Rugs: The HSBC Bakhshaish Carpet c. 1875 Lot 171
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakhshaish Oatmeal Ground Tree Carpet c. 1880 Lot 271
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakshaish Carpet c. 1880 Sotheby's lot 182

• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakhshaish Carpet c. 1900 Lot 127
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Late 19th c. Eskenazi Bakshaish Carpet Rippon-Boswell lot 99
• Bakhshaish Rugs: Bakshaish Carpet Early 20th Sotheby's lot 129

Turkish Knot, Pulled Right, Depressed Warps

Structure: Depressed symmetrical knot pulled right. Knot counts can range from 25 to 100.

Following Heinrich Jacoby, Gorevans and Bakshaish carpets were coarser than Heriz and that they had large wefts almost the size of the warps but Heriz used thick warps with much thinner wefts. Heinrich Jacoby

Guide to Rugs & Books

La Miniature En Orient

Southwest Asia Time Line