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Catalogue: Major Autumn Auction

Auction date: Saturday 05. December 2009 at 15 o'clock

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Bijar Lot: 86
Bijar The design of Bijar carpets is often influenced by Sehna models, as in this old example knotted on a wool warp in one of the many small workshops of the area. A dense Herati design in reds and blues covers the field, the red border shows palmettes outlined in arabesques connected by a leaf vine. – Good condition.
Origin:
North West Persia, Kurdistan
Dimensions:
150 x 121 cm
Age:
Ca. 1920
End price:
6,100.00 €
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Shahsavan Sumakh Bag Face Lot: 90
Shahsavan Sumakh Bag Face A first-rate sumakh bag face, once part of a khorjin. Its surface has a ribbed structure on account of the very dense weave. – Cut all around, replaced cords at the sides.
Origin:
North West Persia, Mianeh region
Dimensions:
44 x 49 cm
Age:
Mid 19th century
End price:
3,050.00 €
Literature:
WERTIME, JOHN T., Sumak Bags of Northwest Persia & Transcaucasia. London 1998, no. 56
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Bakhtiari Khan Carpet Lot: 93
Bakhtiari Khan Carpet From the mid 19th century, Bakhtiari tribal leaders, called ""khans"", commissioned carpets with large inscriptions immortalising the name of the client and all his honorifics. In a pioneering article published in HALI, Ian Bennett examined this interesting phenomenon, drawing on rich sources and photo archives. The example offered here, made in the area around Shalamzar judging by its structure, bears the inscription, ""Farmayesh Aqa-e Morteza Quli Khan Bakhtiari, 1314"". Born in 1877, Morteza Quli Khan was 19 years old when he received this carpet. Another carpet made for him, of comparable design and similar colours but much larger dimensions, dated 1331 is illustrated in Bennett´s feature. – Very good condition.
Origin:
Western Central Persia
Dimensions:
200 x 140 cm
Age:
Dated 1314 = 1896
End price:
15,860.00 €
Literature:
BENNETT, IAN, Carpets of the Khans, Part 1. In: HALI 43, London 1989, ill. 1, p. 40
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Turkmen Chuval Lot: 95
Turkmen Chuval At first glance, this very rare nine-gül chuval appears to be a Salor weaving, but the palette, wool material and soft, flexible handle contradict this attribution. As the piece does not display any of the characteristic features of Tekke or Saryk chuvals either, a precise attribution to a tribe seems impossible at present. – Sides newly overcast, somewhat reduced at the bottom, otherwise in very good condition.
Origin:
Central Asia, West Turkestan
Dimensions:
95 x 148 cm
Age:
First half 19th century
End price:
23,790.00 €
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Karagashli Lot: 100
Karagashli Reselvedged, slightly reduced ends. Uniformly low pile, several restorations.
Origin:
East Caucasus, Kuba region
Dimensions:
161 x 92 cm
Age:
Late 19th century
End price:
2,379.00 €
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Karadagh Lot: 104
Karadagh A very rare, small-format carpet, with botehs on a light red ground and a blue border; judging by its knotting structure and palette, it was made in the Karadagh border region. The main border already shows stylistic influences from the neighbouring Karabagh region. – Good condition.
Origin:
North West Persia, Azerbaijan
Dimensions:
119 x 89 cm
Age:
Dated 1275 = 1858
End price:
24,400.00 €
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Kurdish Bag Face Lot: 105
Kurdish Bag Face This especially beautiful Kurdish bag face, once part of a khorjin, is striking for its rare ornamentation, with two rose and two mid blue diamonds enclosing a cruciform star motif and surrounded by earth brown diamonds that recede into the background. – Corroded brown, otherwise well preserved, with the original selvedges and closure band.
Origin:
West Persia, Kermanshar
Dimensions:
73 x 76 cm
Age:
Mid 19th century
End price:
3,294.00 €
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Samarkand Suzani Lot: 107
Samarkand Suzani Slight signs of age and wear, several short tears, some of them stitched. Unwashed, various stains. Not backed with fabric.
Origin:
Central Asia, Uzbekistan
Dimensions:
305 x 194 cm
Age:
First half 19th century
End price:
8,540.00 €
Literature:
VOK, IGNAZIO, Vok Collection. Suzani. Eine textile Kunst aus Zentralasien. Munich 1994, no. 41
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Kaitag Embroidery Lot: 110
Kaitag Embroidery An especially beautiful silk embroidery from one of the villages in the Daghestan highlands, with a design of reciprocal hooks, trefoils and heart shapes executed in mirror image, as well as three horizontal borders. The grey-green cotton ground is largely obscured by the design. A mellow, harmonious palette. An example with a comparable composition, but woven in stronger colours, is in the Wolf Collection, New York, and was exhibited in Washington in 2003. – Good condition, framed.
Origin:
North East Caucasus, Daghestan region
Dimensions:
102 x 51 cm
Age:
18th century
End price:
5,490.00 €
Literature:
EILAND JR:, MURRAY L.(ed.), A World Of Oriental Carpets & Textiles. Washington, D.C. 2003, fig. 22, p. 56
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Kazak Lot: 111
Kazak A rare Kazak of unusual length, its compartment-like field design of polygons dominated by large crosses. – Fully preserved with the original finishes all around, slight signs of wear in the pile.
Origin:
South West Caucasus
Dimensions:
316 x 118 cm
Age:
Second half 19th century
End price:
13,420.00 €

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Wiesbaden, 9th December 2008

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