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Catalogue: Single Owner Auction - The Kossow Collection

Auction date: Saturday 26. March 2011 at 15 o'clock

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Qashqa’i Bag Face, Shishboluki Tribe Lot: 31
Qashqa’i Bag Face, Shishboluki Tribe A pile-woven bag face showing the classic Qashqa’i diamond design in a four-and-one composition on a midnight blue field, with Memling güls placed in the corners. The brown-red diamond, its stepped outline decorated with birds’ heads, has a cruciform interior drawing surrounding a central rosette, hooked diamonds and abstract animals. A velvety pile and fine weave. – Well preserved.
Origin:
South West Persia, Fars
Dimensions:
60 x 63 cm
Age:
Second half 19th century
End price:
-2.00 €
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Luri Kilim, Mamasani Tribe Lot: 32
Luri Kilim, Mamasani Tribe A coarsely woven slit tapestry by the Luri nomads, with a dense diamond design in which the unschematic colour distribution produces an unsettled mosaic picture. Tile-like field compositions were as popular with the Luri as they were with the Qashqa’i, and many examples have survived. Woven with brown and white warps, this is a pretty item of rustic charm. – Signs of age and wear, damaged lower finish, the sides are in need of restoration in places.
Origin:
South West Persia, Fars
Dimensions:
234 x 149 cm
Age:
Late 19th century
End price:
1,159.00 €
Literature:
Opie, James, Tribal Rugs. Portland 1992, p. 116, no. 7.14
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Qashqa’i, Kashkuli Tribe Lot: 33
Qashqa’i, Kashkuli Tribe A deep blue shield form with serrated outlines floats on a white field decorated with botehs. In the inner field, adorned with flowering shrubs, a central medallion with a hooked outline encloses a palmette frequently seen in Kashkuli carpets, the so-called "Qashqa’i gül". Tiny animals have been incorporated into the field design, while two Persian inscriptions appear in the upper corners. The narrow main border contains a vine of small palmettes and rosettes on a golden yellow ground. The red-ground secondary borders show diverging floral vines, a rare feature in Qashqa’i rugs. – Original finishes all around, slight signs of wear in the pile and small repairs.
Origin:
South West Persia, Fars
Dimensions:
205 x 125 cm
Age:
Late 19th century
End price:
4,880.00 €
Literature:
PARHAM, CYRUS & AZADI, SIAVOSH, Tribal and Village Rugs from Fars. Tehran 1991. Vol. 1 (Persian edition), ills. p. 242 and 243
Published:
Kunstauktionshaus Dr. Fritz Nagel, auction 19T, 10th October 1992, # 2143
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Khamseh, Baharlu Tribe Lot: 34
Khamseh, Baharlu Tribe The Baharlu and Ainalu tribal groups belonging to the Khamseh federation often used repeats of narrow vertical stripes as field designs, usually in red alternating with white, and sometimes overlaid them with medallions. In English publications this stripe pattern is called "cane design". – In good condition except for a few minor repiled areas, with the original finishes all around.
Origin:
South West Persia, Fars
Dimensions:
257 x 155 cm
Age:
Late 19th century
End price:
4,270.00 €
Literature:
PARHAM, CYRUS, Masterpieces of Fars Rugs. Tehran 1996, no. 32
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Qashqa’i, Shishboluki Tribe Lot: 35
Qashqa’i, Shishboluki Tribe The midnight blue field displays a design of ten diamond medallions, alternating between red and white and linked at their points, with an interior drawing of Qashqa’i güls. The knotting structure and border design indicate that the rug is a product of the Shishboluki tribe. Woven in the long kenareh format, it belonged to a set of four carpets of analogous design, but of different dimensions, that were displayed together in the main room of a Persian house. Sometimes such sets of four rugs were made in one piece (in workshop conditions), as shown by an example published by Opie. – Slight signs of age and wear in the pile, in good overall condition.
Origin:
South West Persia, Fars
Dimensions:
404 x 87 cm
Age:
Early 20th century
End price:
2,928.00 €
Literature:
OPIE, JAMES, Tribal Rugs of Southern Persia. Portland 1981, pl. p. 43 *** POHL-SCHILLINGS, HANS E., Aussergewöhnliche Orientteppiche. Bilder einer Ausstellung VI. Cologne 1992, no. 14
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Luri Bag Face Lot: 36
Luri Bag Face Published on several occasions, this bag face finely woven in sumakh technique, with a piled panel at the lower end, originally belonged to one of the large Luri double bags loaded onto camels during migrations. It is considered one of the oldest and most beautiful examples of its kind. A line of five mounted horsemen is depicted in the lowest of the four horizontal bands. The other face of this khorjin has also survived, and was exhibited in Washington in 2003. – Slight signs of age and wear.
Origin:
Western Central Persia, Chahar Mahal
Dimensions:
55 x 110 cm
Age:
First half 19th century
End price:
12,200.00 €
Literature:
EILAND JR., MURRAY L. (ed.), A World Of Oriental Carpets & Textiles. Washington, D.C. 2003, fig. 5, p. 74 (the pair)
Published:
EILAND, MURRAY (ed.), Oriental Rugs from Pacific Collections. Exhibition for the 6th International Conference on Oriental Carpets. San Francisco 1990, no. 77, p. 98 *** OPIE, JAMES, Tribal Rugs. Nomadic and Village Weavings from the Near East and Central Asia. Portland 1992, 4.30, p. 50 - 51
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Afshar Lot: 37
Afshar This design of a red stepped central medallion and flowering trees growing from two vases, as well as quarter sections of analogous medallions in the field corners, goes back to urban models produced in Kerman. Four small humans wearing Persian dress, with arms akimbo, are seen at the side of the midnight blue field. The white-ground main border displays one of the most beautiful Afshar border designs, the so-called "corkscrew" vine. Each corner contains a blue square with a golden crescent moon and a star, perhaps a cosmological symbol. The striped outermost bands are knotted, not woven in sumakh technique. – Thin pile in places, the red foundation is partly visible, the bottom left corner has been repiled.
Origin:
South Persia, Kerman region
Dimensions:
210 x 152 cm
Age:
Second half 19th century
End price:
3,050.00 €
Literature:
Herrmann, Eberhart, Seltene Orientteppiche 10. Munich 1988, no. 79
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Qashqa’i Bag Face, Safi Khani Tribe Lot: 38
Qashqa’i Bag Face, Safi Khani Tribe A very rare, green-ground bag face by the Safi Khani tribe, with three horizontal rows of offset botehs enclosing flowering trees. The red-ground border is decorated with a delicate floral vine. The angular, bold drawing of the botehs is influenced by Afshar pieces (see Collins). A fine weave, white wefts, a dense velvety pile. Remnants of a pistachio coloured kilim survive at the bottom. – Slightly reduced at the top, original sides, in good overall condition.
Origin:
South West Persia, Fars
Dimensions:
47 x 67 cm
Age:
Second half 19th century
End price:
6,344.00 €
Literature:
COLLINS, JOHN J., Persian Piled Weaving. A collection of non-urban piled bags. Newburyport 2007, pl. 37 *** DODDS, DENNIS & EILAND, MURRAY L., Jr. (eds.), Oriental Rugs From Atlantic Collections. Philadelphia 1996, no. 293
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Qashqa’i Horse Cover Lot: 39
Qashqa’i Horse Cover A white-ground decorative horse cover composed of two panels, with a warp-faced kilim ground and a pile-woven design. The lower section of the field is decorated in a dense repeat of octagons enclosing star-shaped blossoms that form colour diagonals oriented towards the centre. The section above this shows a frieze of human figures and trees as well as two rows of small boxes with a checkerboard design. The main border contains a surrounding frieze of peacocks; the upper chest tabs also show abstract animal and human figures. – Good condition.
Origin:
South West Persia, Fars
Dimensions:
173 x 153 cm
Age:
Ca. 1900
End price:
4,270.00 €
Literature:
OPIE, JAMES, Tribal Rugs of Southern Persia. Portland 1981, pl. p. 57 *** GEWERBEMUSEUM BASEL (publ.), Alte Teppiche aus dem Orient. Basel 1980, pl. p. 101
Published:
HERRMANN, EBERHART, Seltene Orientteppiche 9. Munich 1987, no. 63
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Qashqa’i, Shekarlu Tribe Lot: 40
Qashqa’i, Shekarlu Tribe The dense repeat seen in the dark blue field of this large Shekarlu carpet depicts a garden landscape. A cross-shaped gül, repeated several times, indicates that the weaving was made by the Qashqa’i tribe. The narrow red-ground border shows a floral vine. – Good condition, with original end and side finishes.
Origin:
South West Persia, Fars
Dimensions:
306 x 173 cm
Age:
Second half 19th century
End price:
5,246.00 €
Literature:
STONE, PETER (ed.), Mideast Meets Midwest. Ethnographic Rugs From Midwest Collections. Chicago 1993, no. 29

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