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Major Autumn Auction
Auction date: Saturday 05. December 2009
Rippon
Boswell & Co. International Auctioneers of Rare Carpets & Textiles
Lot: 73
North West Persian Kelleh: Along the central axis of the white
field, three huge, dark blue diamond medallions are embedded in a generously
proportioned lattice of serrated green leaves and multi-coloured palmettes,
executed in wonderful, brilliant colours. This field design obviously goes
back to Indian models (see fragment of a velvet fabric in Herrmann and a
velvet in the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon). The characteristic border shows
that the carpet belongs to a specific group from Persian Azerbaijan, always
very long. It is probably the oldest piece in the group. – Strong signs of
age and wear, repairs, low pile. Sides newly overcast, both ends repiled.
Origin: North West Persia, Azerbaijan
Size: 689 x 317 cm
Age: 18th
century
Estimate: 38.000,00 €
Literature: HERRMANN, EBERHART,
Asiatische Teppich- und Textilkunst 2. Munich 1990, no. 76 (Indian velvet)
*** FUNDACAO CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN (publ.), Persian Art. Calouste Gulbenkian
Collection. Lisbon 1972 (new edition 1985), no. 24 *** HERRMANN, EBERHART,
Asiatische Teppich- und Textilkunst 4. Munich 1992, no. 64 (a kelleh with
the same border)
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