Tabriz Petag paladstæppe, Nordvest Persien. 1600-tals Safavid “Paradis” tæppedesign i form af central medaljon på lys bund prydet med cypresser, slyngede grene og en lang række forskellige dyremotiver omgivet af 50 cm bred hovedbort. Ene hjørne med Petag monogramsignatur i form af Cintamani-kugler. Dette tæppe er en kopi af 1500-tals “Kroningstæppet” på LACMA(Los Angeles County Museum). 20. årh.s begyndelse. 762×401. Proveniens: Tidligere i Dansk privatsamling. Litteratur, lign. design: Herbert Reichel, Tyskland 1969. Berühmte Orient-teppiche aus historischer sicht. Related ex. P. 248. Pl. 74. Depicting the 16th century LACMA(Los Angeles County Museum) example. LACMA’s Coronation carpet received its name because it was used at the 1902 coronation of the United Kingdom’s Edward VII, son of Queen Victoria. Set before the king’s throne in Westminster Abbey, the carpet was also prominently featured in Edwin Austin Abbey’s painting of the event. The carpet was selected for the coronation ceremonies by the Duveen brothers, art dealers who were commissioned to provide tapestries and rugs for the event, which they borrowed from prominent collections. Shortly after the coronation, the carpet was acquired by American collector and self-made millionaire Marsden J. Perry. It subsequently belonged to two other American tycoons: Clarence Mackay, followed by J. Paul Getty, who donated it to LACMA in 1949. A. Cecil Edwards, London. “The Persian carpet”, 1953. Pl. 8. S. 21, afb. af lignende eksemplar fra Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Det tilstedeværende katalognummer er identisk med HEINRICH JACOBY Petag Tabriz tæppet solgt hos Christie's, London(auktion 15505, lot. 355), 25 oktober, 2018. The PETAG workshop (Persische Teppiche Aktien Gesellschaft), was a German initiative founded in Berlin in 1911. Guided by the scholar/dealer Heinrich Jacoby (1889–1964), author of Eine Sammlung Orientalischer Teppiche, Berlin, 1923, amongst other works, a large workshop was opened in the city of Tabriz, north west Persia. Its aim was to produce carpets of the highest quality in order to combat the decline in quality encountered due to the mass production of carpets in the late 19th century. PETAG carpets are identified by their use of particularly lustrous kurk wool, natural vegetal dyes and their distinctive 'signature' formed of three çintamani roundels arranged in a triangular formation, often located in the far corner of the field or border pattern. Originally a Tibetan Buddhist motif, it symbolised a wish-fulfilling glowing pearl, as well as the triple spots of a leopard's pelt. The çintamani was later adopted by the Ottomans and used in textiles, ceramics, amongst other art forms.
