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Early Transcaucasian Carpet Fragment
New
189 x 135 cm (6' 2" x 4' 5")
Caucasus, ca. 1800 or before
Condition: fragment, mostly good pile, scattered small repairs, upper border comes from a different carpet, lower border restored
Published: "Weise Collection - Ambassadors from the Orient", Roland Weise, 2019, page 33
Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool
Alberto Levi wrote a seminal article for HALI 214 in which he described his passion for carpets from the Golden Triangle - Turkey, Persia, and the Caucasus. This piece is also published on page 111 of the essay titled "The Golden Triangle Syndrome." Next to it, under number 25, is a carpet with a similar pattern.
He writes: "While most TGT pieces apparently follow an early Caucasian development, there are some that appear in both Caucasian and Anatolian versions, thus illustrating the essence of the Golden Triangle."
The pattern can be traced back to Persia. However, it is incredibly fascinating that there is a similar artistic interpretation from two different regions. Characteristic of these two pieces - as well as of another example from the Berlin Museum, illustrated as number 24 - are crosswise palmettes, mainly yellow in our carpet, each containing a triangular shape.
In our last Masterpieces Auction III, we had, as Lot 28, a fragment showing this palmette in a more naturalistic design as well as the ascending palmette within a system. A carpet illustrated in McMullan, "Islamic Carpets", number 27, shows a fully preserved example with a naturalistic depiction. See also our Auction XXXIX, Lot 166, also published in HALI 222, page 150, as well as Masterpieces III, Lot 32.
Estimate: € 12000 - 18000
Caucasus, ca. 1800 or before
Condition: fragment, mostly good pile, scattered small repairs, upper border comes from a different carpet, lower border restored
Published: "Weise Collection - Ambassadors from the Orient", Roland Weise, 2019, page 33
Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool
Alberto Levi wrote a seminal article for HALI 214 in which he described his passion for carpets from the Golden Triangle - Turkey, Persia, and the Caucasus. This piece is also published on page 111 of the essay titled "The Golden Triangle Syndrome." Next to it, under number 25, is a carpet with a similar pattern.
He writes: "While most TGT pieces apparently follow an early Caucasian development, there are some that appear in both Caucasian and Anatolian versions, thus illustrating the essence of the Golden Triangle."
The pattern can be traced back to Persia. However, it is incredibly fascinating that there is a similar artistic interpretation from two different regions. Characteristic of these two pieces - as well as of another example from the Berlin Museum, illustrated as number 24 - are crosswise palmettes, mainly yellow in our carpet, each containing a triangular shape.
In our last Masterpieces Auction III, we had, as Lot 28, a fragment showing this palmette in a more naturalistic design as well as the ascending palmette within a system. A carpet illustrated in McMullan, "Islamic Carpets", number 27, shows a fully preserved example with a naturalistic depiction. See also our Auction XXXIX, Lot 166, also published in HALI 222, page 150, as well as Masterpieces III, Lot 32.
Estimate: € 12000 - 18000