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喀桑莫塔森古毯
产地：喀桑（波斯中部）
年代：约1850年
材质：克尔克羊毛、真丝
出版：1. 《罕见的东方地毯》第一册，SH.Sameyeh着，第170页，图版122，SH.SAMEYEH PTE LTD，德国，1982年。
2. 《伊斯兰东方手织工艺地毯》，第50页，图版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，人们将顶级的喀桑地毯称为“喀桑莫塔森”毯，“莫塔森”一词源自19世纪波斯纺织大师Mohtaschem的手工作坊。从该毯主面板的图案来看，具有莫塔森毯的早期风格。
此毯堪称波斯动物艺术地毯的杰作。浅褐色背景中一棵宛如蛇形的树肆意伸展，繁茂的枝叶间栖息着各种鸟类和动物，活泼跳跃的松鼠，安闲优雅的鹿，充满着紧张气氛的狮子猎羊……奇特的画面不由地令人联想起印度莫卧儿地毯中的经典设计——会说话的树。
这条古董毯的绒面全部由最优质的克尔克羊毛制成，更为难得的是，此毯的经线及镶边部分也为克尔克羊毛，纬线则以真丝编织，做工极为精良，结点紧密，每平方米的编结数达到100万个，全毯共计283.5万个结点。品相极佳。非常适宜室内装饰，极具收藏、投资价值。
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