Important Fine Kurk Kashan 'Mohtasham' Pictorial-Rug 'Signed By Master Weaver Javad Tabatabai' (Bahram Gur & The Shepherd) 'PoetryOf Nizami Ganjavi', Central Persia, dated 1910, wool/cotton, approx. 217 x 143 cm, condition: 2 (professionally new made fringes,otherwise good condition), masterpiece from the workshops of Mohtasham made by one of his most famous weavers 'Javade Tabatabai', exceptional fine quality with remarkable fine and very clean knotting, very soft and high- quality wool, expressive and high-quality natural colors, very artful and fine drawing, unique kurk Kashan depicting the popular oriental moral-story of Bahrame Gur & the Shepherd (the Shepherd bounded his dog on a tree for punishment and instruction, because the dog and the wolf got together and kill every night one sheep), the moral of this story is 'trust is good control is better', the borders are with writing cartouches from 'Nizami' in which the story is told, very rare in such a high-quality, (one similar piece inlower quality was in 2017 in the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of art in Oklahoma, USA).**************************************** *****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************Special-Auction: Antique, old and decorative collector rugs & carpets. Please ask for condition-reports and more high-resolution detail photos. Henrys Auktionshaus AG Department 'Rugs & Carpets', teppich, tapis, tappeto, alfromba.