Antique Qashqai Kashkuli Millefleur Persian Rug, c. 1900–1925
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ABOUT THIS PIECE
An antique Qashqai Kashkuli Persian rug from Fars, hand-knotted in the early 20th century in wool on a wool foundation, with a millefleur niche on a red field.
A field of small flowers fills a red niche that steps up at both ends, with two small ivory medallions on its centre line and rows of trees rising through it. Each end panel is deep indigo, planted with trees and large saffron flowers, and panels of fine grey-violet lattice run down both sides. Ivory corner panels and a dark brown main border between ivory guards frame the whole.
The indigo changes from one end of the rug to the other, slate blue at one end and almost black at the other, and the lattice panels darken halfway down on both sides. These shifts are abrash, left where the weavers moved on to a new batch of dyed wool, and they give the rug its depth.
The fringes show the wool warps, in mixed brown and ivory. It has a firm handle, pliable but with more body than the softest Kashkuli weaving.
The Kashkuli are one of the main tribes of the Qashqai confederation in Fars, in southwest Persia. The design is known in Persian as nazem and in English as millefleur, for the many small flowers of the field.
The pile is very short across the whole rug. The ends have been resecured, and the sides have been rebound in their original style.
At 245 by 150cm it suits a living room, a study or a bedroom. View it in our Richmond gallery, or explore more vintage Persian rugs.
SPECIFICATIONS
IN THE FIELD GUIDE
Kashkuli · Qashqai · Millefleur · Wool on wool · Quarters of a century · Antique
How it sits in your room.
245 × 150 CM (8' × 4'11"), DRAWN TO SCALE WITH TYPICAL AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE SIZES.
Long enough for a 3-seater sofa but not deep enough to reach under its front legs as well as hold the coffee table, so it sits just in front with the table on it. Floated like this it reads as a deliberate island.
The chairs sit on the rug at the table, but with 35 cm of rug beyond the table their back legs catch the edge when pulled out. 60 cm is the comfortable margin.
Under the lower part of a queen bed with 46 cm of rug showing on each side, so your feet land on it either side of the bed.
Measure the room, or just the area the rug should cover, and we will draw this rug in it to scale.
