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Catalogue: Major Spring Auction

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

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Lot: 126
Khotan In the Orient, the pomegranate is an ancient symbol of fertility and life. This motif is often found in carpets from East Turkestan. In this Khotan, woven in a rare narrow format and probably destined for a special purpose, a yellow tree bearing black pomegranates grows from a vase at either end of the salmon red field. Their crowns do not touch, but are separated by a narrow horizontal stripe that remains undecorated. A black-ground swastika meander border frames the field. – Corroded black, slight signs of age and wear. Sides newly overcast, low spots in the pile.
Origin:
Central Asia, East Turkestan
Dimensions:
270 x 70 cm
Age:
Mid 19th century
End price:
8,540.00 €
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Lot: 128
Khotan A beautiful Khotan with a field design of eight large octagons enclosing a diagonal cruciform motif decorated with double hooks. They are framed by a border of rectangles containing rosettes, while a somewhat wider, outer border of floral diamonds placed in offset rows completes the picture. The first rate colours and confident proportions of the composition reveal the carpet’s great age. This Khotan was previously owned by the well-known Chinese dealer, Sammy Yu-Kuan Lee, Hongkong. – Good condition.
Origin:
Central Asia, East Turkestan
Dimensions:
231 x 124 cm
Age:
Early 19th century
End price:
25,620.00 €
Literature:
HERRMANN, EBERHART, Seltene Orientteppiche 10. Munich 1988, no. 115 *** HERRMANN, EBERHART, Asiatische Teppich- und Textilkunst 2. Munich 1990, no. 70
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Lot: 129
Marasali Prayer Rug Attributed to the Marasali group, this prayer rug from the Shirvan region has a brilliant golden-yellow field and a diamond lattice design in which angular botehs form colour diagonals in relation to the central axis. Published comparative pieces, of which the example in the Straka Collection of the Washington Textile Museum is probably the best known, are often identical as twins. – Completely preserved with original finishes all around. Several horizontal creases, slight signs of wear in the pile, sides in need of restoration.
Origin:
East Caucasus
Dimensions:
152 x 128 cm
Age:
Second half 19th century
End price:
3,660.00 €
Literature:
STRAKA, JEROME A. (ed.), The Oriental Rug Collection of Jerome and Mary Jane Straka. (Exhibition catalogue Textile Museum) Washington, D.C. 1978, no. 103 *** BENARDOUT, RAYMOND, Woven Stars. Rugs And Textiles From Southern California Collections. Los Angeles 1996, no. 11
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Lot: 135
Konya Kilim A white-ground kilim composed of two panels of unequal width, with three large nested hexagons outlined in sawteeth placed along the central axis; they are interspersed with horizontal pattern bands and hourglass-like motifs. The same motifs appear on a larger scale in the lower elem. The upper elem is narrower, and decorated with halved elibelinde motifs. – Several rewoven sections and small stains.
Origin:
Central Anatolia
Dimensions:
460 x 160 cm
Age:
Mid 19th century
End price:
4,270.00 €
Literature:
KREISSL, RAINER, Infinite Variety. Unendliche Vielfalt. Anatolia. Munich 2000, no. 88
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Lot: 137
Yomut Multiple Gül Rug The field design of “C” güls and kepse güls means this Yomut belongs to the small group of multiple gül rugs, of which only 12 examples were previously known. Multiple gül rugs form a heterogeneous group with great variations; their principal common feature is that their field designs unite primary ornaments in combinations that deviate from the norm. Judging by the light colours and small dimensions, this main carpet is probably of considerable age. The “C” güls and border drawing are considered characteristics of the Igdir tribe, but the knotting structure and palette are closer to the Karadashli Turkmen of South West Turkestan. The carpet may have been produced in the Achal oasis. – Sides newly overcast and both ends somewhat reduced; several old repairs, now different in colour; uniformly low pile.
Origin:
Central Asia, West Turkestan
Dimensions:
222 x 165 cm
Age:
Early 19th century
End price:
26,840.00 €
Literature:
MACKIE, LOUISE & THOMPSON, JON, Turkmen. Tribal Carpets and Traditions. Washington D.C. 1980, no. 63 *** HALI 130, p. 81 (Hecksher Collection)
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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
End price:
3,660.00 €
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
End price:
2,562.00 €
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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
End price:
10,980.00 €
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
End price:
10,370.00 €
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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
End price:
1,220.00 €

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