EAST TURKESTAN, CIRCA 1880

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A SILK YARKAND CARPET
EAST TURKESTAN, CIRCA 1880
The shaded indigo field with two vases at each end issuing large angular stylised pomegranate 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
9ft.9in. x 5ft.9in. (296cm.x 175cm.)

Provenance

The Bernheimer Family Collection, acquired 8 February 1939 as a "Samarkand, blau" for DM350, sold in these Rooms, 14 February 1996, lot 178

Exhibited

Ausstellung Orient-Teppiche, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1950, no.150, p.115.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

A similar example with the same vase and pomegranate design, formerly in the James F. Ballard Collection, is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (M. S. Dimand and J. Mailey: Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, fig.306, pp.170-1). Another silk Yarkand carpet with the same design but on a pale blue ground, was sold in these Rooms, 28 April 2004, lot 251.

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