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Masterpieces IV There are 45 Lots.
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5 000 €Lot: 41
Early South Caucasian Carpet520 x 270 cm (17' 1" x 8' 10")
Caucasus, early 19th century but dated 1130 (1717)
Condition: according to age, low pile in places, lower border restored, upper end slightly restored, several old repairs and reweavings
Provenance: Swiss Private Collection
Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool
This decorative carpet is impressively large, featuring a prominent white medallion set against a dark blue background.
This medallion design is characteristic of carpets from the Karabagh region. The field features a grid pattern in which star-shaped blossoms and various palmettes alternate. In the lower half, the weaver has arranged these in a mixed pattern, while in the upper half she has opted for a diagonal arrangement.
In the second row from the bottom is a motif that does not appear elsewhere. Perhaps it was a sort of trademark of hers, or perhaps she simply grew tired of it. The medallion has shifted slightly to the right, and the weaver has filled the space to the right and left of it with small motifs. Between the octagonal tiles, diamond shapes form, each adorned with a highly abstracted floral motif. A beautiful green-blue border elegantly frames the field.
A date is inscribed in the medallion, though it does not mark the carpet's date of origin. A highly interesting comparison is a Kelleh from the Karabagh region, which follows the same basic principle in a naturalistic-floral manner with an almost identical medallion, yet interprets it in a completely different way. Sotheby's, April 11, 2024, Lot 111.
Estimate: € 8000 - 120005 000 € -
Startpreis / Startingbid
5 000 €Lot: 42
Early Karabagh576 x 174 cm (18' 11" x 5' 9")
Caucasus, ca. 1800
Condition: good for its age, low pile in places, corroded dark brown, scattered small repairs, both ends slightly incomplete
Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool
This impressive group of large-scale carpets featuring the Harshang design was produced in a region stretching from northwestern Persia to the southern Caucasus. The design itself is related to the Kirman vase carpets. An excellent comparison is provided by a 17th-century fragment that sold at Christie's on April 19, 2016, for £542,500.
In the vase carpets, the flowers are connected by spiral tendrils. Traces of this can still be seen in the present Harshang carpet as well as in the most famous piece of this group at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, published by McMullan in "Islamic Carpets," no. 27. The Harshang design consists of opposing palmettes and flowers in a quatrefoil arrangement, with cartouches filled with fork leaves in between. The whole is laid out as an endless repeat, and the field contains smaller motifs whose traces can be found in later Caucasian carpets.
Characteristically, the weaver has inserted small animals on both sides of the field. The secondary borders are already known from dragon carpets, whereas the main border, with its double-pointed leaves, appears to be quite unique. In ?erare Yetkin, "Early Caucasian Carpets in Turkey," Volume I, Plate 40 depicts a carpet that illustrates this principle. On September 16, 2014, we sold a Harshang carpet from the Marshall Collection for € 40,260.
Estimate: € 8000 - 120005 000 € -
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8 000 €Lot: 43
Karabagh591 x 185 cm (19' 5" x 6' 1")
Caucasus, dated 1257 (1841)
Condition: good for its age, low pile in places, upper end partially minimally restored, scattered small repairs, signs of use on the sides and ends
Compare: "Oriental Rugs from Atlantic Collections," Murray Eiland Jr. & Dennis R. Dodds, 1996, plate 92
Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool
A counterpart to this wonderful piece is housed at the Glencairn Museum, Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, USA, and was on display in the "Highstyle to Homestyle" exhibition held in conjunction with the 8th ICOC (see above and Hali 159,
page 88). The field design of both carpets, consisting of palmettes and flowers, is derived from the Harshang design and, unusually, set within a diamond grid. This could well have been inspired by Mughal carpets.
In addition to the mainly vertically oriented palmettes, the few that are only slightly horizontal reveal the connection. The two palmettes in the lower row next to the yellow palmette are exemplary of this.
Here below, as with the Glencairn carpet, the weaver has woven numerous small fill motifs into the midnight-blue field.
The border is very uniquely designed. The wavy tendril connecting the flowers is angular in form, and the leaves appear almost Kufic in style. The round, blue-based flowers in particular are very unusual, and weaving them so round requires great skill.
The Glencairn carpet is also dated in a very similarly designed white form, specifically to 1834.
Another, very closely related piece is dated 1837 and may have come from the same workshop. It was sold on April 1, 2021, as Lot 116 at Christie's for 10,625 pounds.
Estimate: € 12000 - 160008 000 € -
Startpreis / Startingbid
5 000 €Lot: 44
Sultanabad494 x 360 cm (16' 2" x 11' 10")
Persia, late 19th century
Condition: good, low pile in places, corroded dark brown, minor small repairs, signs of use on sides and ends
Warp: cotton, weft: cotton, pile: wool
Estimate: € 8000 - 120005 000 € -
Startpreis / Startingbid
7 000 €Lot: 45
Serapi605 x 390 cm (19' 10" x 12' 10")
Persia, late 19th century
Condition: good, low pile in places, lower end partially slightly incomplete, scattered small repairs, signs of use
Warp: cotton, weft: cotton, pile: wool
Estimate: € 10000 - 150007 000 €