(Connoisseur-Caliber) ("New Arrivals Gallery") Exuding a folk art drama through a combination of overscale and underscale designs and ingenious asymmetries, this superb late 19th-century Serapi carpet embodies an intriguing primitive quality married to a spontaneous exuberance highly prized in this ancient village style. The medallion is based on a classical form but is filled with fascinating intricacies of line and shape of each artfully abstracted botanical motif. Sprouting vertically from this centerpiece are two azure flame-like palmettes shimmering among the luminously striated carnelian reserve. Every supporting design is drawn with countless slight individual variations that reveal joyful, gifted improvisations that endeared this carpet time and again to all who have lived with it. Beyond the triumphs of its ornamentation, this piece shows an irrepressible daring in the artist’s vision for the color palette, with an admirably unique expression of purposeful 'abrash' color shifts. Weaving this Serapi must have been a labor of love! The highly durable, lanolin-rich oily mountain wool used in its construction is the source of its longevity and gently glistening quality.

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