Lot 105
ZIEGLER CARPET
SULTANABAD, WEST PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Auction: Day One: 14 March 2012 From 10am
Description
the camel field with allover palmette and foliate design in red, blue, pink, yellow and brown, within indigo rosette and vine border between bands
528cm x 291cm
Footnote
Note: These fashionable carpets were produced in the town of Sultanabad in Iran by the Manchester based Anglo-Swiss firm of Ziegler & Company from around 1880. Having already established business connections in Turkey and Iran through the export of printed cottons from their English-based firm, they established their own looms for the production of carpets for the European and American markets, becoming the first successful European manufacturer to do so. Their economic presence became so great that the town was known as 'Fort Ziegler'. The company used ready-dyed wools for colour consistency, large looms to achieve the required sizes for Western homes and offered a regular wage to local weavers. Ziegler carpets were made to achieve a balance and symmetry in keeping with the scale of a room and its furnishings and often have a design and colour palette in harmony with fashionable European movements of the time.