Bedroom at Château de Montpoupon

Montpoupon is a fortified castle destroyed during the hundred years war, and rebuilt during the Renaissance by the Prie family. The chateau has been inhabited by the same family since 1857.

An open window illuminates the interior’s history and creates its own atmospheric lighting in this little bedroom.

The dark wood and navy carpet combined exude a moody vibe – which is amplified by the light of the single window.

The space features a NW Persian carpet with an all over boteh design, which is quite incredible to find a pair for – and it just so happens that we have exactly that in our inventory.

Navy combined with softer blues and neutrals make this traditional design a strong, yet easy going choice.

Here’s the goods to make you feel like the King of your own castle:

Stock ID 20-10012

NW Persian

7’0″ x 11’6″

circa 1850

Check out some detail images to better view the nuances of this mid 19th century masterpiece. The subtle ahbrash of color within the rug is such a compelling feature.

View this carpet on our website, or contact us to see it in person!

NW Persian Interpretation of Indian Prototype

#20419

Northwest Persian Gallery Carpet

Probably Kurdistan, Possibly Kolyai

6’4” x 15’8”

3^rd quarter 18^th Century

This antique gallery format carpet is a particularly fine example of a select group of Kurdish carpets accurately interpreting a 17^th century Mughal Indian Agra prototype.

The abrashed and slightly corroded brown field displays a complex, dense allover one-way pattern of three blossom flowers, small palmettes and geometric rosettes connected by fractional split arabesques and broken vertical staves.

Although the pattern seems to be textile-derived, in fact there are surviving Indian pile carpets with a virtually identical pattern.  Most salient are the split arabesques in ivory, yellow, red, and royal blue which delineate a quasi-lattice pattern.  The field is densely covered and there are no open areas.  The pattern is balanced in all directions, a sign of a skilled workshop.

The main navy border displays two types of palmettes, rosettes, and embracing pairs of lancet leaves, with matching ivory minor stripes of repeating, discrete squares of trefoiled double flowers.  These flowers appear exactly on contemporary Kirshehir Turkish rugs and later in the 19^th century on Luri tribal rugs.

The weave employs symmetric (Turkish) knots on a mixed foundation of cotton warps and single wool wefts between knot rows.  This structure is common in Kolyai Kurdish carpets of the period. The kelleh format is also a Kolyai specialty. A small number of these carpets are known, often with burgundy fields.  Ours is unusual for its brown ground.  All share the same design.  How a classic Indian carpet got to Kurdistan to copy is one of the many unsolved rug mysteries.  Add in the Turkish style minor borders and one has a doubly curious, but highly attractive and totally authentic carpet.  A few pieces in related patterns have been assigned to Malayer to the east on the basis of weave character, but they are of the same age.  A date for our piece at the 3^rd quarter of the 18^th century is quite acceptable.

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