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Descriptif du lot
With a design that was sometimes drawn with a single vase, this silk Yarkand carpet has a quartered, mirrored design along its central and horizontal axes. It displays two vases at either end, each issuing a red vertically rising fruiting tree ripe with pomegranates, elegantly defined against the pale blue field. Other design variations within this group are relatively limited and include tonal or colour changes within the field colour, or an alternative border or guard stripe design. Here the field is framed by the most common red border with openly spaced individual blue and green petalled rosettes, within a restrained plain yellow band and further narrow rosette outer minor stripe. Other border designs used include a 'T-fret' or kochak border.
Silk Yarkand carpets have appeared amongst the inventories of numerous significant collectors including that of James F. Ballard who gifted his to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1922 (acc.no. 22.100.28). An example which was formerly part of the Doris Duke Foundation was sold at Christie's New York, 3 June 2008, lot 32; the Bernheimer family sold theirs in these Rooms, 14 February 1996, lot 178, and Davide Halevim sold two further examples, 14 February 2001, lot 40 and 41. A rare yellow-ground Yarkand in wool, with a double 'vase' design, formerly part of the collection of Hans König, sold Christie's London, 25 October, 2018, lot 292. Perhaps the closest comparable to the present lot can be found in the Marta collection, Milan, published Moshe Tabibnia, Intrecci Cinesi, Antica Arte Tessile VX-XIX Secolo, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2011, pl.55, pp.222-23 which sold in these Rooms, 29 April, 2004, lot 251. Further comparable examples are illustrated in Freiderich Spuhler, 'East Turkestan Silk Carpets', The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, pp.196-7, pl.50 and Hans Konig, Alte Orientteppiche, Munich, 1978, fig.105, pp.236-7.
For further discussion on this group please see Hans Bidder, Carpets from Eastern Turkestan, Tübingen, 1979, pp.49-53
Silk Yarkand carpets have appeared amongst the inventories of numerous significant collectors including that of James F. Ballard who gifted his to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1922 (acc.no. 22.100.28). An example which was formerly part of the Doris Duke Foundation was sold at Christie's New York, 3 June 2008, lot 32; the Bernheimer family sold theirs in these Rooms, 14 February 1996, lot 178, and Davide Halevim sold two further examples, 14 February 2001, lot 40 and 41. A rare yellow-ground Yarkand in wool, with a double 'vase' design, formerly part of the collection of Hans König, sold Christie's London, 25 October, 2018, lot 292. Perhaps the closest comparable to the present lot can be found in the Marta collection, Milan, published Moshe Tabibnia, Intrecci Cinesi, Antica Arte Tessile VX-XIX Secolo, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2011, pl.55, pp.222-23 which sold in these Rooms, 29 April, 2004, lot 251. Further comparable examples are illustrated in Freiderich Spuhler, 'East Turkestan Silk Carpets', The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, pp.196-7, pl.50 and Hans Konig, Alte Orientteppiche, Munich, 1978, fig.105, pp.236-7.
For further discussion on this group please see Hans Bidder, Carpets from Eastern Turkestan, Tübingen, 1979, pp.49-53