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Catalogue: Major Spring Auction

Auction date: Saturday 23. May 2009 at 15 o'clock

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Lot: 141
Marasali Prayer Rug This prayer rug of extraordinarily fine weave (ca. 300,000 knots/sqm) has always been appreciated as an especially precious piece and protected accordingly, as its almost pristine condition shows. Individual details in the pile have been woven in silk or cotton. The date, "1284 A.H." (1868 AD), appears twice on the upper left, next to the top of the mihrab. As is often the case in Caucasian prayer rugs, the date may document a year of pilgrimage to Mecca. In publications, Shirvan prayer rugs of this elite quality are called Marasali. – Very good condition, original finishes all around, the pile survives at its original height.
Origin:
East Caucasus, Shirvan region
Dimensions:
127 x 118 cm
Age:
Dated 1868
Estimate:
13,000.00 €
Literature:
KAFFEL, RALPH, Caucasian Prayer Rugs. London 1998, no. 94 *** DENNY, WALTER B. & WALKER, DANIEL, The Markarian Album. Cincinnati 1988, no. pl. 75
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Lot: 142
Luri Bag Face One half of a khorjin. The dark blue field shows an abstract tree design, while red squares and double hooks adorn the white border. – Fully preserved, with the striped kilim back and original seams at the sides. Damaged corners, signs of wear.
Origin:
South West Persia, Fars
Dimensions:
52 x 58 cm
Age:
Late 19th century
Estimate:
950.00 €
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Lot: 143
Zeikhur Original finishes all around, with blue flat-woven selvedges and the warp threads tied off in a net-like arrangement. The brown sections are corroded, otherwise the pile is well preserved. A long panel along the central axis, below the centre, has been rewoven.
Origin:
East Caucasus, Kuba region
Dimensions:
196 x 130 cm
Age:
Late 19th century
Estimate:
4,500.00 €
Literature:
EDER, DORIS, Orientteppiche. Band 1: Kaukasische Teppiche. Munich 1979, no. 389 *** FOKKER, NICOLAS, Caucasian Rugs of Yesterday. London, Boston & Sydney 1979, pl. p. 93
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Lot: 144
Silk Tabriz A striking feature of this finely woven silk Tabriz with a classic central medallion composition is its unusual main border: several ornaments of the blossoming vine extend into the inner secondary border. – Original finishes all around, the kilim at the lower end has been folded back and stitched to the reverse. Slight signs of wear, low sections in the pile. Sides in need of repair in places.
Origin:
North West Persia, Azerbaijan
Dimensions:
193 x 132 cm
Age:
Late 19th century
Estimate:
1,400.00 €
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Lot: 145
Silk Kashan A splendid pictorial Kashan with a silk pile. Its format (longer and wider than a Dozar) and the Persian inscription in an oval frame at the upper end of the field prove that the carpet was produced for a domestic client. The white ground of the field is not piled but flat-woven (Souf technique). This makes the asymmetrical tree-of-life stand out in a particularly sculptured way. Five large birds (a peacock, parrot, cockatoo, golden oriole and hoopoe) sit in the tree’s branches which appear to bend under the weight of its fruit. The two halved cypress trees placed at the sides give the field its sweeping, indented outline, the upper finish is executed in the shape of an arch, as is usual in this type of picture. Inscribed cartouches containing verses by the famous Persian poet Hafiz and blossoming twigs fill the wide main border. – Another example of this rare group was published by Herrmann. Judging by their identical inscriptions indicating the client, both carpets were made for the same person (Ismail Daba Musavi Irani). – There is documentary evidence that before World War I, this Kashan belonged to a frigate captain called Köhler, commander of the S.M.S. Karlsruhe, a small cruiser sunk in 1915. – Slight signs of age, several horizontal creases, small tears in the white field.
Origin:
Central Persia
Dimensions:
237 x 167 cm
Age:
Late 19th century
Estimate:
3,500.00 €
Literature:
HERRMANN, EBERHART, Seltene Orientteppiche 4. Munich 1982, no. 65 *** GANS-RUEDIN, ERWIN, Der Persische Teppich. Munich 1978, p. 349
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Lot: 146
Ningxia Wall Hanging In the large halls of monasteries in western China, where domed structures were unknown, roofs were supported by a forest of pillars. Old photos document that these were wrapped in rugs showing dragon figures. Designs of pillar rugs only make sense when wrapped around a pillar of suitable diametre. Then the dragon figure appears as a continuous design, ascending in a spiralling movement. When laid out flat on the floor, the dragon’s body is in segments extending beyond the edges of the field. As our carpet depicts three complete dragons, the piece constitutes one of the wall hangings decorated with analogous designs that used to adorn the walls of the halls, so it is not a pillar rug. This Ningxia was previously owned by the well-known Chinese dealer, Sammy Yu-Kuan Lee, Hongkong. – Good condition.
Origin:
West China
Dimensions:
215 x 135 cm
Age:
First half 19th century
Estimate:
7,500.00 €
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Lot: 147
Tibetan Khaden A hexagonal lattice containing cruciform flowers has been placed on the red-brown ground, while the light red border presents a polychrome meandering vine drawn in perspective. – Backed with blue cotton fabric, slight signs of wear along the side, otherwise in good condition.
Origin:
South Tibet
Dimensions:
145 x 77 cm
Age:
Early 20th century
Estimate:
1,000.00 €
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Lot: 148
Ningxia This fragment used to belong to one of the long bench covers required in Western Chinese and Tibetan monasteries. The light yellow field shows two circular, dark blue medallions decorated with the “leaf dragon” design, surrounded by small blossoms and stylised twigs. The border contains elongated twigs with a lotus blossom at their centres. – The upper end of the field has been reduced and the horizontal border rewoven. Otherwise in good condition.
Origin:
West China
Dimensions:
155 x 80 cm
Age:
First half 19th century
Estimate:
1,300.00 €
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Lot: 149
Sarab Kelley An antique Sarab in the Kelley format, with a date at the top end of the field (1288 A.H. = 1872 AD). The camel field shows large, light-coloured, rounded botehs placed in offset rows, whose free and generous arrangement and constant change in direction imbue this simple composition with an unusual, lively rhythm. This floral design is rarely encountered in Sarab carpets. – Slightly damaged, original red selvedges, several repaired areas. A very heavy carpet on account of the cotton ground weave and high pile.
Origin:
North West Persia, Azerbaijan
Dimensions:
596 x 183 cm
Age:
Dated 1872
Estimate:
7,000.00 €
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Lot: 150
Afshar Six red, diamond-shaped blossoms, their tips decorated with arrows and their sides with large pairs of botehs, fill the midnight blue ground, which is divided into six rectangular compartments by red bands embellished with a delicate floral vine. Only a very few Afshar carpets showing this rare ornamentation have been published. – Remnants of the kilim finish have survived at the top, somewhat reduced at the bottom, sides with the original two-tone overcasting. Low spots in the pile.
Origin:
South Persia, Kirman region
Dimensions:
151 x 130 cm
Age:
Ca. 1900
Estimate:
3,600.00 €
Literature:
ESKENAZI, JOHN J., L'Arte del Tappeto Orientale. Milan 1983, no. 234 *** TKF-WIEN (eds.), Antike Orientteppiche aus österreichischem Besitz. Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Textil–Kunst-Forschung. Vienna 1986, no. 98 left *** HERRMANN, EBERHART, Seltene Orientteppiche 10. Munich 1988, no. 76