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Catalogue: Major Spring Auction
Auction date: Saturday 29. May 2010 at 03 PM
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| Lot: 181 | ||
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| Shirvan | A diamond lattice of serrated blue leaves enclosing flowering plants adorns the white field. This composition is frequently seen in prayer rugs from the region, but this piece has been knotted without a mihrab. Three stripes make up the wide border, with an inner stripe of stepped polygons on a yellow ground and a central stripe of abstract birds on a red ground. Uniformly low pile. Original selvedges and kilim ends. | |
| Origin: East Caucasus |
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| Size: 180 x 113 cm |
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| Age: Late 19th century |
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| Estimate: 2.700,00 € |
| Lot: 182 | ||
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| Kagizman Kilim | A rare Kagizman kilim, woven in a single panel in the typical dark colours of the region. The entire surface is densely covered in hexagons and diamonds decorated with arrows, hourglass shapes and small solid crosses embedded in ochre, dark brown, white and blue vertical stripes. In this design, the reciprocal interplay of forms is fascinating. Good condition, only minor repairs. | |
| Origin: East Anatolia |
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| Size: 365 x 146 cm |
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| Age: 19th century |
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| Estimate: 6.500,00 € |
| Lot: 183 | ||
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| Kizil Ayak Chuval | A rare nine-gül chuval by the Kizil Ayak tribe whose designs are related to Tekke pieces in ornamentation. An unusual elem design of loosely arranged flowering plants placed upside down. The back is missing, original upper and lower finishes, newly overcast sides. Slight signs of wear and minor repairs. | |
| Origin: Central Asia, Amu Darya region |
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| Size: 86 x 133 cm |
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| Age: Mid 19th century |
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| Estimate: 2.200,00 € |
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| Literature: POULLADA, S. PETER, Kizil Ayak & Ali Eli Chuvals. HALI 148, London 2006, p. 70, fig. 14 *** HAMBURGISCHES MUSEUM FÜR VÖLKERKUNDE (publ.), Wie Blumen in der Wüste. Die Kultur der turkmenischen Nomadenstämme Zentralasiens. Hamburg 1993, no. 118 |
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| Lot: 184 | ||
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| Tekke Main Carpet | An early main carpet showing four rows of eleven primary güls and chuval secondary güls linked by vertical lines. The generous division of space shows off the design to better advantage than many other examples. Soft velvety pile and brilliant colours, with a clear distinction between steel blue and petrol green in the gül centres. Cut sides, the outer secondary border is missing, reselvedged. Repiled and repaired sections in the area of the right-hand central border. Repaired moth damage in various places. Slightly reduced at the bottom, remains of the original kilim survive at the top. | |
| Origin: Central Asia, West Turkestan |
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| Size: 257 x 188 cm |
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| Age: First half 19th century |
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| Estimate: 7.500,00 € |
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| Literature: MACKIE, LOUISE & THOMPSON, JON, Turkmen. Tribal Carpets and Traditions. Washington D.C. 1980, no. 28 *** ELMBY, HANS, Antikke Turkmenske Tæpper II. Antique Turkmen Rugs Copenhagen 1994, pl. 1 *** REUBEN, DAVID M., Gols And Guls I. Exhibition Of Turkmen Carpets From the 18th and 19th Centuries. London 1998, no. 4 |
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| Lot: 185 | ||
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| Lahore | A large, highly decorative workshop carpet made in North India, probably the city of Lahore. The aubergine ground displays a dense tree design modeled on Persian carpets. Original finishes all around, slight signs of wear in the pile. | |
| Origin: North India |
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| Size: 440 x 356 cm |
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| Age: Ca. 1880 |
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| Estimate: 40.000,00 € |
| Lot: 186 | ||
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| Yomut Flatweave | A rare Yomut flatweave with horizontal stripes; the seven brocaded bands patterned with interlocking pointed niches are interspersed with kilim stripes in plain brown red, dusky pink, blue and green. It is assumed that Yomut flatweaves of this kind were woven by semi-nomadic Göklen living in North East Persia for use as wall hangings in their winter quarters. An older example of the group from the McMullan Collection is now in the New York Metropolitan Museum. Minor areas of wear, otherwise very well preserved. | |
| Origin: North East Persia, Khorasan |
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| Size: 277 x 147 cm |
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| Age: Late 19th century |
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| Estimate: 1.900,00 € |
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| Literature: McMULLAN, JOSEPH V., Islamic Carpets. New York 1965, no. 134 *** GALERIE SAILER (publ.), Aus der Welt des Kelim. The World of the Kelim. Salzburg 1984, no.19 *** HERRMANN, EBERHART, Seltene Orientteppiche 5. München 1983, no. 74 *** PINNER, ROBERT, The Rickmers Collection. Turkoman Rugs. Berlin 1993, pl. 54 |
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| Lot: 187 | ||
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| Tekke Tent Band Fragment | Judging by its ornamentation and palette, this jolami fragment could be a Tekke piece. Damage to the sides, signs of wear, old repairs. | |
| Origin: Central Asia, West Turkestan |
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| Size: 207 x 26 cm |
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| Age: Mid 19th century |
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| Estimate: 375,00 € |
| Lot: 188 | ||
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| Karakoyunlu Kilim | This large, single-panel kilim woven in harmonious colours, with a memorable graphic design centring on three white box shapes, was woven in a village situated between Konya and Nigde by members of the Karakayunlu tribe. Another example from the same group is in the Vakiflar Museum, Istanbul. Very well preserved, except for minor damage along the sides. | |
| Origin: Central Anatolia |
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| Size: 445 x 180 cm |
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| Age: Mid 19th century |
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| Estimate: 3.700,00 € |
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| Literature: BALPINAR, BELKIS & HIRSCH, UDO, Flachgewebe des Vakiflar-Museums Istanbul. Wesel 1982, pl. 22 |
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| Lot: 189 | ||
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| Zeikhur Sumakh | This rare sumakh, with a repeat of delicate honeycombs on a dark brown field and a typical Zeikhur outer border, was exhibited by Benardout as early as 1978 and published in „Caucasian Rugs“. Original finishes all around, minor repaired areas, good overall condition. | |
| Origin: East Caucasus, Kuba region |
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| Size: 146 x 67 cm |
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| Age: Second half 19th century |
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| Estimate: 4.500,00 € |
| Lot: 190 | ||
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| Bijar | Bijar carpets dispaying this rare design of rampant and snarling heraldic lions as well as large serrated leaves, grapes and flute-shaped flowers set into a repeat of ogival compartments formed by red vines were produced both in dozar format and in larger formats. Products of the late Qajar period, they can be roughly dated from 1880 to 1920. The design of European appearance does not originate in Persia; as Dodds surmises in his description of a similar example in the Fisher Collection, it may go back to Renaissance style European fabrics. A stylistic idiosyncracy of lion carpets is the use of changing colours in some motifs (here, the lions and some of the border ornaments), creating a speckled appearance (mottled design). Cut sides, reselvedged, otherwise in good condition. | |
| Origin: North West Persia, Kurdistan |
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| Size: 197 x 131 cm |
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| Age: Ca. 1900 |
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| Estimate: 5.800,00 € |
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| Literature: DODDS, DENNIS R., Oriental Rugs. The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Fischer. Richmond 1985, no. 12 *** RIPPON BOSWELL Wiesbaden, Auction 6. May 1989, # 127 |
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