9’1″ x 12’2″ Antique Bidjar Carpet, Calyx Design, Kurdistan Province, Northwest Persia, Circa 1910
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Photographs do not do this carpet justice. It is beautiful in person and in superb condition.
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This antique Bidjar carpet is part of a relatively uncommon group of Bidjars featuring a “Calyx” design. The red background is decorated with large flowers and ancillary floral elements. There is an excellent range of color, including red, navy, coral, sky blue, mid blue, green, a brownish aubergine and light camel color.
The Oxford Dictionary defines a Calyx as “the ring of small green leaves (called sepals) that protect a flower before it opens.” The Cambridge Dictionary describes it slightly differently as “the outer part of a flower formed by the sepals (the separate outer parts), which covers and protects the petals, etc as they develop.”
A work of art (in this case furnishing fabric) in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London called “Calyx” was made in Great Britain in 1951 and has this notation: “Textile designer Lucienne Day (1917 – 2010) graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1940, but her career breakthrough came with the launch of her pioneering contemporary textile ‘Calyx’, designed for the Festival of Britain in 1951, which embodied the energy and optimism of the postwar period.”