CARPET. Semi-antique Tabriz Petag. 385,5 x 307 cm.
Signed with Petag's chintamani-sign. (Petag = Persische Teppich AG). A light blue ground with a large polychrome pattern of palmettes, flowers and cloud bands. A wide green main border with a large flower, palmette and arabesque vine.
Partly some wear, dirty, stains. Insignificant mothdamages at the back.
Provenance
Bought in the beginning of the 1960's in Stockholm by the current owner's parents.
Literature
About Petag in CarpetCollector: The German firm Petag, short for Persische Teppich AG, was founded in Berlin in 1911. Under the inspiring leadership of Heinrich Jacoby a large workshop opened up in Tabriz (North-West Iran). The idea was to fight the decline in quality resulting from high commercialisation in production responding Western demand. The result was excellent: thanks to the use of extremely good wool and skilfully made vegetal dyes the company succeeded in reviving old and elegant designs from the 16th and 17th century. The different qualities derived their names from the density of knots: Pertovi, Hamajun, Teimuri, Rustem and Cyrus. The workshop shut down in the forties. The Petag-carpets can easily be recognized by the chintamani-sign that is knotted in each piece.