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Catalogue: Major Spring Auction

Auction date: Saturday 29. May 2010 at 15 o'clock

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Shahsavan Bag Face Lot: 280
Shahsavan Bag Face Woven in slit tapestry technique and displaying a repeat of large diamonds with protruding rays, this bag face is probably the work of a Shahsavan tribal group in the Bijar area, as the palette in particular indicates. Good condition, original side finishes; only traces of the closure band at the top survive.
Origin:
North West Persia, Kurdistan
Dimensions:
59 x 61 cm
Age:
Late 19th century
End price:
732.00 €
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Yomut Asmalyk Lot: 282
Yomut Asmalyk At Turkmen weddings, such five-cornered asmalyks were used to decorate the flanks of the camel on which the bride, seated in a veiled litter, was solemnly led to her groom. All textiles specially made for the ceremony had symbolic meaning and were woven with particular care. This white-ground asmalyk shows a typical design of ashik güls and wide, diagonal, sharply serrated leaves. Syrga motifs adorn the main border. Brilliant colours, a fine weave. Original finishes all around, the lower finish is decorated with multi-coloured tufts of wool. Two darned holes in the upper section of the field, some damage to the upper corners.
Origin:
Central Asia, West Turkestan
Dimensions:
80 x 124 cm
Age:
Second half 19th century
End price:
732.00 €
Literature:
MOSHKOVA, VALENTINA G., Carpets of the People of Central Asia. Tucson 1996 (new edition O'Bannon & Amanova-Olsen), fig. 21
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Bamana Kilim Lot: 284
Bamana Kilim A large blanket by the Bamana Soninke tribe of Mali woven in a blue and white chequerboard design, its fields separated by fine, red horizontal lines. The kilim consists of narrow vertical panels woven from hand-spun cotton that were later joined to produce the desired format. Such pieces could be employed for various purposes: as sleeping blankets, room dividers in dwellings or as cloths wrapped around the body. As the tribes of Mali maintained trade relations to Saharan peoples, their work is also encountered among the Touareg. Such kilims are difficult to date, but they may be older than hitherto assumed. The Basel museum owns a very similar kilim, with evidence documenting its purchase by Swiss missionaries in Lagos in 1862. Many stains, otherwise well preserved.
Origin:
West Africa, Mali
Dimensions:
360 x 151 cm
Age:
19th century
End price:
3,294.00 €
Literature:
GILLOW, JOHN, African Textiles. Colour and Creativity Across a Continent. London 2003, fig. p. 25 *** NABHOLZ-KARTASCHOFF, MARIE-LOUISE, Woven Beauty. HALI 162, London 2009, fig. 8, p. 89
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Uzbek Embroidery Lot: 286
Uzbek Embroidery A red-ground, square velvet cover from Uzbekistan, embroidered with yellow, green and red diamonds framing a box design enclosing four flowers. The wide edge has been embroidered with sparkling diamonds of gold and silver thread, with silk centres. The small decorative cover has been edged all around with a fringe of brown cotton threads tied off in a net-like arrangement. Good condition.
Origin:
Central Asia, Uzbekistan
Dimensions:
56 x 54 cm
Age:
Early 20th century
End price:
244.00 €
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Varamin Mafrash Side Panel Lot: 287
Varamin Mafrash Side Panel A pile-woven side panel of a transport bag (mafrash), with a Turkmen chuval gül surrounded by four small animals in the midnight blue field. A white-ground main border with the leaf and calyx design and two brown-red minor borders. The piece may have been the decorative face of a mafrash whose back and two narrow sides were possibly woven in kilim technique. Somewhat reduced at the bottom, otherwise in good condition.
Origin:
North Persia, Varamin region
Dimensions:
50 x 124 cm
Age:
Ca. 1920
End price:
427.00 €
Literature:
COLLINS, JOHN J., Collins IX. An Exhibition and Sale of 47 Persian Piled Weavings. Newburyport 2007, pl. 12
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Luri Bakhtiari Salt Bag Lot: 288
Luri Bakhtiari Salt Bag A salt bag by the Luri Bakhtiari tribes from the Zagros region in the typical bottle shape. Woven in sumakh technique, the face shows an abstract garden design on a midnight blue ground, while a pile-woven panel of flowers forms the lower finish. A red-blue striped kilim back. Good condition.
Origin:
Western Central Persia
Dimensions:
51 x 52 cm
Age:
Early 20th century
End price:
829.60 €
Literature:
DE FRANCHIS, AMADEO & WERTIME, JOHN, Lori and Bakhtiari Flatweaves. Tehran 1976, no. 30 B
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Shahsavan Chanteh Lot: 290
Shahsavan Chanteh A flat-woven double bag in miniature format, a so-called chanteh. Its simple design of small flowering plants on a white ground, with a border of diagonal stripes, is woven in sumakh technique. Complete with the central connecting panel, good condition.
Origin:
North West Persia, Azerbaijan
Dimensions:
43 x 18 cm
Age:
Ca. 1900
End price:
457.50 €
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Luri Chanteh Lot: 291
Luri Chanteh Miniature bags such as this brown-ground example, its field adorned with a large flower and an animal, are called „chanteh“. They served to store personal items, comparable to our wallets or purses. The seams along the sides have been undone, good condition.
Origin:
South West Persia, Fars
Dimensions:
38 x 18 cm
Age:
Early 20th century
End price:
366.00 €
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Tabriz Poshti (2 examples) Lot: 292
Tabriz Poshti (2 examples) Two large Tabriz poshti (cushion faces) with a Herati field design on a blue field and a red-ground palmette border. Cut sides, new cords, both ends somewhat reduced, otherwise in good condition.
Origin:
North West Persia, Azerbaijan
Dimensions:
a = 77 x 103 cm, b = 78 x 105 cm
Age:
Ca. 1920
End price:
762.50 €

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