Lot Essay
For an example of a wool Yarkand carpet with nearly an identical design to the Bernheimer piece, see Herrman, Eberhart: Seltene Orientteppiche IV, Munich, no.100.
Details
A SILK YARKAND CARPET
EAST TURKESTAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
The shaded indigo field with two vases at each end issuing large angular stylised pomegranite trees with leafy terminals, in a raspberry-red border of blue key-pattern between similar simpler red and yellow stripes, plain outer red stripe, a short kilim strip at each end, reduced in length, repaired split, small repair, slight wear in a few areas
Approximately 9ft.9in. x 5ft.9in. (296cm.x 175cm.)
Warp: white cotton Z7S, strongly depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: 3 shoots light blue cotton, Z4, first and third slightly undulating, second strongly undulating
Pile: Silk unplied, asymmetrical open to the left, H3.8 x V3.0/cm.
Sides: unplied red silk wound around two additional warps, the main weft is flat-woven around these.
Ends: approx. 1cm. flatweave with blue cotton, uncut fringes knotted together in groups of 6-12
EAST TURKESTAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
The shaded indigo field with two vases at each end issuing large angular stylised pomegranite trees with leafy terminals, in a raspberry-red border of blue key-pattern between similar simpler red and yellow stripes, plain outer red stripe, a short kilim strip at each end, reduced in length, repaired split, small repair, slight wear in a few areas
Approximately 9ft.9in. x 5ft.9in. (296cm.x 175cm.)
Warp: white cotton Z7S, strongly depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: 3 shoots light blue cotton, Z4, first and third slightly undulating, second strongly undulating
Pile: Silk unplied, asymmetrical open to the left, H3.8 x V3.0/cm.
Sides: unplied red silk wound around two additional warps, the main weft is flat-woven around these.
Ends: approx. 1cm. flatweave with blue cotton, uncut fringes knotted together in groups of 6-12
Provenance
Acquired 8 February 1939 as a "Samarkand, blau" for DM350
Exhibited
Ausstellung Orient-Teppiche, Museum fr Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1950, no.150, p.115