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Kaitag Textile
New
87 x 61 cm (2' 10" x 2')
Caucasus, 18th century
Condition: very good, minor small repairs and abrasions
Silk on cotton
The first Kaitag to be published in the West appeared in Hali 2/2, p. 37, in an advertisement by Lisbeth Holmes. It was an embroidery with equestrian motifs, attributed to northwest Persia and dated to the 17th century. In the following issue (2/3, p. 48), another example was illustrated and described as Uzbek. It was not until the early 1990s, particularly through Robert Chenciner's book 'Kaitag, Textile Art from Daghestan', that collectors' passion for these works was truly ignited.
In the years that followed, nearly all pieces available on the open market disappeared into private collections, so that today it has become rare for examples to surface. In Chenciner's book, four related pieces are published under numbers 95 to 98. All display six circular forms surrounded by secondary motifs. Our example, however, additionally features circles and X-shapes arranged around the center. A number of Kaitags constitute unique works of art in their own right, imaginatively incorporating inspirations from Ottoman art - for instance, from yastiks. Thus, in Hülya Bilgi, 'Çatma ve Bilki', Sadberk Hanim Museum, 2007, pls. 34-37, we encounter velvet yastiks with a sun motif at the center. The red rays of the sun taper as they radiate outward. If, however, we adjust our view to the negative form, we suddenly see the white arrowheads of the Kaitag pointing toward the center. The yastik illustrated on pl. 34 is further encircled by tulips alternating with golden circles, each bearing a red dot at its center - a motif that explains the outer frame of the Kaitag. Turning to Mackie's 'Symbols of Power', Cleveland 2015, p. 300, we find a silk velvet with an allover pattern corresponding to that of the yastik. Here, saz leaves and blossoms appear in the interstices, which again connect with the Kaitag motifs. Though the two textiles appear utterly different at first glance, each is of extraordinary beauty in its own way, and they share far more than one might initially assume.
Estimate: € 6000 - 8000
Caucasus, 18th century
Condition: very good, minor small repairs and abrasions
Silk on cotton
The first Kaitag to be published in the West appeared in Hali 2/2, p. 37, in an advertisement by Lisbeth Holmes. It was an embroidery with equestrian motifs, attributed to northwest Persia and dated to the 17th century. In the following issue (2/3, p. 48), another example was illustrated and described as Uzbek. It was not until the early 1990s, particularly through Robert Chenciner's book 'Kaitag, Textile Art from Daghestan', that collectors' passion for these works was truly ignited.
In the years that followed, nearly all pieces available on the open market disappeared into private collections, so that today it has become rare for examples to surface. In Chenciner's book, four related pieces are published under numbers 95 to 98. All display six circular forms surrounded by secondary motifs. Our example, however, additionally features circles and X-shapes arranged around the center. A number of Kaitags constitute unique works of art in their own right, imaginatively incorporating inspirations from Ottoman art - for instance, from yastiks. Thus, in Hülya Bilgi, 'Çatma ve Bilki', Sadberk Hanim Museum, 2007, pls. 34-37, we encounter velvet yastiks with a sun motif at the center. The red rays of the sun taper as they radiate outward. If, however, we adjust our view to the negative form, we suddenly see the white arrowheads of the Kaitag pointing toward the center. The yastik illustrated on pl. 34 is further encircled by tulips alternating with golden circles, each bearing a red dot at its center - a motif that explains the outer frame of the Kaitag. Turning to Mackie's 'Symbols of Power', Cleveland 2015, p. 300, we find a silk velvet with an allover pattern corresponding to that of the yastik. Here, saz leaves and blossoms appear in the interstices, which again connect with the Kaitag motifs. Though the two textiles appear utterly different at first glance, each is of extraordinary beauty in its own way, and they share far more than one might initially assume.
Estimate: € 6000 - 8000