Image Carpets

Pictorial Fine Kerman Carpet

In the 19th and 20th centeries, it was fashinable in Iran to have Kerman carpets with designs taken from European sources.the design of this carpet was based on a Louis XIV, Gobelins tapestry from the series ‘les sujetsdelaFable’ after the drawings by Raphael(1500). woven on three separate occasions for luis XIV, between 1685 -1704, the scene depicts ‘la Danse d’ une nymphe,dela droite’ showing pormona with Vertumnus in the guise of a faun, playing the pipes of the fertility god, Pan, and seated next to a pinth supporting a vase with festive putti overhead aa in a verdant landscape evoking Arcadia, the idyllic home of Pan.

Acopy of this tapestry hung in the public room at the golestan Palace, Tehran.