Bakhtiari

Knotted by Bakhtiari weavers from the Chahar Mahal village region of central Persia, where the main Bakhtiari tribes have settled since the 19th Century, this beautiful item employs what is the most distinctive and characteristic of traditional Bakhtiari designs, comprising a compartmental field composition representing a stylised image of a garden, each compartment containing flowers, trees and other motifs, all expressed in the slightly angular, spare manner for which the Bakhtiari are renowned. Works in this design have been knotted for as long as the Bakhtiari people have lived in the Chahar Mahal region, and are greatly prized by collectors. This is a particularly splendid example, in which the full range of the rich Bakhtiari dye shades is explored to their full, while the design is balanced and finely articulated throughout.