A PERSIAN CARPET DEPICTING A SCENE POSSIBLY INSPIRED BY OMAR...
A PERSIAN CARPET DEPICTING A SCENE POSSIBLY INSPIRED BY OMAR KHAYYAM'S RUBĀʿIYĀT
Tabriz, Iran, mid 20th century
Wool pile, hand-knotted, with pictorial decoration in delicate shades with predominately green and pink, the central panel depicting four couples in lascivo attitude and enjoying drinking wine and an elderly, most possibly personifying the sage, in the outer frame blossoming branches, animals and ladies drinking wine.
215cm x 300cm
In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Persian miniature painting and figurative art, scenes inspired by Omar Khayyam's Rubāʿiyyāt became increasingly popular. In these celebrated quatrains, wine is one of the central themes, alongside love, the garden, the transience of life and a critique of religious hypocrisy.
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A PERSIAN CARPET DEPICTING A SCENE POSSIBLY INSPIRED BY OMAR KHAYYAM'S RUBĀʿIYĀT
Tabriz, Iran, mid 20th century
Wool pile, hand-knotted, with pictorial decoration in delicate shades with predominately green and pink, the central panel depicting four couples in lascivo attitude and enjoying drinking wine and an elderly, most possibly personifying the sage, in the outer frame blossoming branches, animals and ladies drinking wine.
215cm x 300cm
In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Persian miniature painting and figurative art, scenes inspired by Omar Khayyam's Rubāʿiyyāt became increasingly popular. In these celebrated quatrains, wine is one of the central themes, alongside love, the garden, the transience of life and a critique of religious hypocrisy.
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Time, Location
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