A SILK AND METAL-THREAD KOUM KAPI RUG

Lot 217
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Lot 217 | A SILK AND METAL-THREAD KOUM KAPI RUG
Estimate value
£ 7 000 – 10 000
A SILK AND METAL-THREAD KOUM KAPI RUG
PROBABLY BY HAGOP KAPOUDJIAN, CORFU OR PARIS, CIRCA 1920
Overall very good condition
6ft.7in. x 4ft.1in. (201cm. x 125cm.)




Literature

Personal catalogue, December 1991, MWI 30
George Farrow and Leonard Harrow, Hagop Kapoudjian: the First and Greatest of the Koum Kapi Masters, London, 1993, cat.no. MWI 8, p.48



Engraved

In the border cartouches:

Mikhwah va gul afshan kun az dahr chi miguyi in guft sahargah gul bulbul chi miguyi
Misnad bih gulistan bar ta shahid va saqi-ra lab giri va rukh busi minushi va gul buyi
Shimshad kharaman kun va ahang-i gulistan kun ta sarv bimuzad az qadd-i tu diljuyi
Imruz kih bazar-at pur-i jush-i kharidar ast daryab va binih ganj az maya'i nikuyi
Har murgh bi-dastan dar gulshan-i shah ayad bulbul bih ghazan khwani hafidh bih du'aguyi

'Call for wine and scatter roses - what do you want with Time? Thus spoke the Rose at dawn. Nightingale, what do you say?
Take the cushion to the garden. You may grip the lip and kiss the cheek of the Beloved and the Cup-Bearer. You may drink the wine and smell the rose.
Move your graceful form with pomp and make a harmony of the garden so that the Cypress learns from your stance how to win the heart.
Today, when the market is full of the ebullience of buying, acquire and put aside the capital of goodness.
Every bird brings a melody to the garden of the King: the Nightingale with songs of love, Hafiz with prayers of blessing.'
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