PROBABLY KASHGAR, 18TH CENTURY

细节

AN EAST TURKESTAN SILK RUG
PROBABLY KASHGAR, 18TH CENTURY
The shaded pale golden yellow field with an overall delicate ice-blue key-pattern trellis interspersed with shaded dusty pink and sky-blue stylised bats in flight, in a shaded golden yellow stylised scrolling vine cartouche and angular serrated flower and scrolling leaf border between key-pattern stripes and a plain indigo outer stripe, areas of slight wear and damage, backed
13ft. x 6ft.3in. (395cm. x 190cm.)

来源

Sotheby's London, 18th April, 1984, lot 213

出版

Spuhler, Friedrich: Carpets and Textiles, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, No 48, pp.188-190.

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

The very unusual carpet has few examples with which it can be compared. The drawing in the border however is certainly very comparable with The Morgan Carpet in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (Spuhler, Friedrich: Carpets and Textiles, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, No 48, pp.188-190). The scolling tendrils in the border are very similar indeed in both. Both carpets are woven with silk pile and are identical in length, possibly indicating a loom dimension.

The field design of the present carpet is less idiosyncratic than the Morgan Carpet. It uses however a design that is far purer Chinese than those normally encountered from this origin. A number of velvets of similar design are known, scattered with bats but not on a key-pattern ground. Here however the bats are also wonderfully vivaciously depicted, with a great variety of different postures. It is extremely rare to find a complete Kashgar carpet of this size on the market.