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Early Northwest Persian Carpet Fragment 187 x 207 cm (6’ 2” x 6’ 9”) Persia, 18th century Condition: fragment, pile low in places, scattered small repairs, clear signs of use Provenance: Roland Weise Collection Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool The group of enigmatic and difficult-to-classify carpets from the so-called ”Golden Triangle” has become more prominent in the minds of carpet collectors and researchers in recent years. This is partly due to the sale of the Jim Dixon Collection in the US and partly to the seminal article by Alberto Levi in Hali 214, page 100 ff. It is particularly fascinating to examine these pieces and trace their influences from the Caucasus, Persia, and Anatolia. Our carpet combines excellent colors with impressive graphics. Alberto Levi’s important article features three pieces that form a small group with ours: on pages 110 and 111, numbers 24, 25, and 26, with comparable field patterns but completely different borders. Number 24 from the Islamic Museum in Berlin in particular shows interesting parallels. The field is much more subdued than in our piece, but also features jagged triangular shapes. This brings us back to a large carpet that we successfully sold on November 16, 2024 as lot 166 (see also Hali 222, page 150). There, too, the jagged triangular shapes are found on the sides. The palmettes, which are positioned crosswise and blue in our example, are also comparable in all three carpets. Several of these pieces were discovered in Tibet and may have arrived there via Armenian traders. These wondrous carpets deserve further research and admiration.