Antique Qum Carpet

Period: Late 19th Century
Origin: Persia, Qum Region
Dimensions: 225 × 360 cm

this rare late 19th century Qum carpet highlights a powerful and rhythmic composition featuring a comprehensive, grid-like compartment layout (Bakhtiari/Garden design influence) brimming with stylized botanical motifs, weeping willows, flowering trees, and intricate floral bouquets. This structural balance between the repeating polychrome grid panels across the central field, surrounding multi-layered floral main borders, and room-sized scale reflects the pinnacle of traditional Central Persian fine craftsmanship world-renowned for its exquisite detail, decorative clarity, and majestic graphic presence. Textiles of this antiquity are celebrated for their ability to blend highly expressive regional design narratives with a striking, balanced pattern rhythm.

The color palette is masterfully balanced featuring alternating panels in sky blue, madder red, ochre yellow, and deep navy, creating a vibrant checkerboard canvas contrasted by a light ivory main border adorned with continuous floral rosettes and vine-scrolls. These rich and enduring tones achieved through the expert application of natural vegetable dyes over 130 years ago exhibit a characteristic gentle patina, soft historic abrash, and an organic wool texture that are hallmarks of the finest late 19th century Persian Qum productions. The multi-layered framing borders create a graceful visual boundary that highlights the superior wool quality and distinctive technical finesse of the weaver.

Structural analysis indicates the use of premium hand-spun wool with a characteristically resilient, exceptionally fine and dense knotting structure, resulting in a supple handle tailored for grand interior spaces. The exceptional clarity of the intricate curvilinear and geometric outlines, specifically the perfectly balanced symmetry of the compartment layout and corresponding floral borders, definitively distinguishes this antique masterpiece as an authentic late 19th century Qum carpet production. Ultimately, this decorative textile stands as a premier example of classical Persian art representing a peak in both technical endurance and graphic majesty for global collectors.

Stock No: 1011

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