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喀桑莫塔森古毯
產地：喀桑（波斯中部）
年代：約1850年
材質：克爾克羊毛、真絲
出版：1. 《罕見的東方地毯》第一冊，SH.Sameyeh著，第170頁，圖版122，SH.SAMEYEH PTE LTD，德國，1982年。
2. 《伊斯蘭東方手織工藝地毯》，第50頁，圖版92，SH.SAMEYEH PTE LTD，新加坡，1993年。
尺寸：210×135cm
AN ANTIQUE KASHAN MOHTASCHEM RUG
Origin: Kashan, Central Persia
Age: circa 1850
Medium: Kork Wool, Silk
Illustrated: 1.Exceptional Oriental Carpets Catalogue No.1, SH.SAMEYEH PTE LTD, Germany, 1982, p.170, pl.122.
2. Islamic Art Hand Knotted Oriental Carpet, SH SAMEYEH PTE LTD, Singapore, 1993, p.50, pl.92.
Size : 210×135cm
Description: 1,000,000 knots per square meter, 2,835,000 knots in whole carpet, 100% perfect condition, two sides have new fringes.
RMB: 300,000－400,000
在古董毯收藏界，人們將頂級的喀桑地毯稱為“喀桑莫塔森”毯，“莫塔森”一詞源自19世紀波斯紡織大師Mohtaschem的手工作坊。從該毯主面板的圖案來看，具有莫塔森毯的早期風格。
此毯堪稱波斯動物藝術地毯的杰作。淺褐色背景中一棵宛如蛇形的樹肆意伸展，繁茂的枝葉間棲息著各種鳥類和動物，活潑跳躍的松鼠，安閑優雅的鹿，充滿著緊張氣氛的獅子獵羊……奇特的畫面不由地令人聯想起印度莫臥兒地毯中的經典設計——會說話的樹。
這條古董毯的絨面全部由最優質的克爾克羊毛制成，更為難得的是，此毯的經線及鑲邊部分也為克爾克羊毛，緯線則以真絲編織，做工極為精良，結點緊密，每平方米的編結數達到100萬個，全毯共計283.5萬個結點。品相極佳。非常適宜室內裝飾，極具收藏、投資價值。
This is a rather remarkable Mohtaschem rug, in terms of its field design. A soft brown bifurcated tree snakes with a sinuous vigor up the field, marvelously intertwined with the far more slender, foliate-branched cream tree, with other clear cream leafy-shrubs at the base of the field. A spectacular abundance of foliage includes lotus palmettes, rosettes and leaves, bunches of grapes, and other fruit or foliage devices that gives the vegetal decoration of the piece its highly unusual appearance. Glimpsed amidst this woodland profusion are multifarious birds and animals, depicted in intriguingly naturalistic manner, this combat group serving to illustrate the lifelike style of animal drawing adopted, and the peculiarly irrational relationship of such animals to their background. The creatures are realistic in setting - the grazing deer, the squatting squirrel-like animals and so on. This strange mixture is reminiscent of the vaq-vac tree ('talking tree') design of the Mughal Indian carpets. A conventional ivory-ground arabesque scroll and palmette border and floral guard stripes, with an outer stripe of tiny arches like the barmak pattern of the Turkoman, establishes a traditional, and mellow-coloured, frame to this splendid field, its animate theme reflected in the liveliness of its rendition. Wool, knotting and the harmonies of colour are all definitive of the early Mohtaschem style. A superb work of Persian animal art.n
