A RARE ANTIQUE SHAHSEVAN SILK SOUMAC DOUBLE BAG (khorjin), the face of each with a central light blue field containing polychrome hooked quartered lozenges flanked by similar part-motifs, in a shaded brick-red border of similar motifs between ivory and golden yellow linked flowering vine stripes, lower similar brick-red band, upper band of polychrome panels, red and brown striped woollen kilim back

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A RARE ANTIQUE SHAHSEVAN SILK SOUMAC DOUBLE BAG (khorjin), the face of each with a central light blue field containing polychrome hooked quartered lozenges flanked by similar part-motifs, in a shaded brick-red border of similar motifs between ivory and golden yellow linked flowering vine stripes, lower similar brick-red band, upper band of polychrome panels, red and brown striped woollen kilim back
4ft.6in. x 1ft.9in. (137cm. x 54cm.)

Lot Essay

Only four other examples of Shahsevan silk khorjins appear to have been published: HALI, issue 34, p.13, Herrmann, E.: Seltene Orientteppiche X, Munich 1988, no.49, pp.110-111, Tanavoli, P.: Shahsevan, New York 1985, no.246, p.359 and Sotheby's 21 October 1992, lot 80

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