EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1860

細節

A SHIRVAN CARPET
East Caucasus, circa 1860
The golden yellow field with overall shaded brick-red square panels issuing serrated vine forming lattice panels containing stylised shield motifs around a central column of four serrated panels containing angular motifs, in an ivory border with Y-motifs together with serrated vine between shaded brick-red and brown rosette and barber-pole stripes, one end repiled, scattered repiling
9ft.11in. x 6ft.5in. (302cm. x 196cm.)

出版

Burns, James D.: The Caucasus, Traditions in Weaving, Seattle, 1984, no.37.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

The design in the field of this rug is particularly clearly drawn. A similar sized rug with a later, less clearly delineated version of this design was included in the Davide Halevim sale in these Rooms, 14 February 2001, lot 28. As Burns notes in his caption to the present piece, the yellow ground is expensive to produce, particularly on this scale. It must have been a specific commission, with the two figures in the lower medallion having a special symbolism. Two smaller rugs have the same design on a white field, both on the German market some time ago (Hali 57, p.180, review of Krausse Teppiche exhibition; Ostler, Herbert and Geisselmann, Ägidius: Die Teppichkunst des Orients und die Kunst des Moderne, Munich, 1980, p.51). The second of these two rugs is a yellow ground prayer rug which also clearly bears the dates 1275 and 1276 (1858-60 AD).