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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
A RARE LARGE SELENDI 'BIRD' CARPET
USHAK REGION, WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1575
Details
A RARE LARGE SELENDI 'BIRD' CARPET
USHAK REGION, WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1575
Corroded dark brown, minor restoration and uneven areas of wear, original selvages and kilims partially retained
15ft.2in. x 7ft.1in. (465cm. x 217cm.)
USHAK REGION, WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1575
Corroded dark brown, minor restoration and uneven areas of wear, original selvages and kilims partially retained
15ft.2in. x 7ft.1in. (465cm. x 217cm.)
Provenance
Dr. Kurt Zander Collection, Berlin
Dr. Alfred Cassirer Collection, Berlin
Eva Cassirer Collection, Berlin-USA-Mallorca by whom loaned to the Detroit Institute of Arts, inv. no. F49.25, 1949‒2000 and to the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, 2000‒2012
The present owner
Dr. Alfred Cassirer Collection, Berlin
Eva Cassirer Collection, Berlin-USA-Mallorca by whom loaned to the Detroit Institute of Arts, inv. no. F49.25, 1949‒2000 and to the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, 2000‒2012
The present owner
Literature
Stadt-Museum, Munich, Ausstellung München 1910. Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst; Amtlicher Katalog, exhibition catalogue, Munich, 1910, p.32, no.146
Stadt-Museum, Munich, Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst in München 1910, exhibition catalogue, Munich, 1912, vol.I, no.146, pl.73
Collection Dr. Kurt Zander, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, auction catalogue, 14 May 1914, lot 355
Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl, ‘Turkish “Bird” Rugs and Their Designs’, in The Art Bulletin, vol.7, no.3, March 1925, p.91, note 4 (cited)
Kurt Erdmann, Oriental Carpets, New York and London, 1960, fig.148
Kurt Erdmann, Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets, London, 1970, p.22, fig.9 (detail)
Charles Grant Ellis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oriental Carpets in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988, p.58, note 3 (cited)
Anna Beselin, ‘Using Carpets to Tell Stories. Innovative Approaches to Museum Display’, HALI, Issue 168, Summer 2011, p.31, fig.15
Stadt-Museum, Munich, Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst in München 1910, exhibition catalogue, Munich, 1912, vol.I, no.146, pl.73
Collection Dr. Kurt Zander, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, auction catalogue, 14 May 1914, lot 355
Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl, ‘Turkish “Bird” Rugs and Their Designs’, in The Art Bulletin, vol.7, no.3, March 1925, p.91, note 4 (cited)
Kurt Erdmann, Oriental Carpets, New York and London, 1960, fig.148
Kurt Erdmann, Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets, London, 1970, p.22, fig.9 (detail)
Charles Grant Ellis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oriental Carpets in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988, p.58, note 3 (cited)
Anna Beselin, ‘Using Carpets to Tell Stories. Innovative Approaches to Museum Display’, HALI, Issue 168, Summer 2011, p.31, fig.15
Exhibited
Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst, (Exhibition of Masterpieces of Islamic Art), Munich, 1910, Cat. No 146
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Louise Broadhurst
Director, International Head of Department
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