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Catalogue Description:
CARPETS
SALE N07946 LOT 36
SESSION 1 | 02 Dec 03 10:15 AM.
New York
PROPERTY OF A WEST COAST COLLECTOR
A KURDISH CARPET, SAUJ BULAGH, NORTHWEST
PERSIA/AZERBAIJAN
35,000—45,000 USD
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium:
45,000 USD
MEASUREMENTS
approximately 8ft. 10in. by 4ft. 8in. (2.69 by
1.42m.)
DESCRIPTION
DATE OF OBJECT
circa 1800
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
with a metal disc engraved "M. M. 9936
Sammlung", sewn to top left hand corner,
fabric label inscribed "9936" sewn to
reverse and metal seal engraved "M. M. C.
Z." attached to edge
PROVENANCE
Ronnie Newman, New Jersey
The C. Meyer-Müller Collection, Zurich,
Switzerland, Christie's East, New York, January
22, 1991, lot 60
LITERATURE
Hali, Issue 56, p. 174
Editor's Choice, Carpet and Textile Art, The 1994
Hali Annual, pp. 104-5
PUBLISHED CONDITION NOTE
oxidized dark browns, partial end borders, minor
reweave one guard stripe, minor moth damage with
spot repiling
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Warp: wool, Z2S, natural ivory and brown
Weft: wool, Z2S, red, 2 shoots
Pile: wool, symmetric knot
Density: 6 horizontal, 9 vertical
Sides: 10 warps wrapped in red wool
Ends: incomplete, warp fringe
Colors: red, apricot, light blue, dark blue, light
blue-green, teal, aubergine, light green, ivory, walnut,
charcoal
CATALOGUE NOTE
This dramatic rendition of Kurdish weaving can be
attributed to the area of Sauj Bulagh, a Kurdish town in
the southern district of Persian Azerbaijan known for the
unusual use of dyed red warps. The lustrous wool, supple
handle and exceptionally saturated color of this weaving
are the hallmarks of early Kurdish production, see: Levi,
Alberto, "Renewal & Innovation: Iconographic
Influences on Kurdish Carpet Design", Hali, Issue
70, pp. 85-93. Such weavings appropriate design elements
from earlier Safavid workshop carpets, technically
rendered in a Northwest Persian/Trans-Caucasian manner.
For Sauj Bulagh carpets with related field designs see:
Burns, James D., Antique Rugs of Kurdistan, A Historical
Legacy of Woven Art, London, 2002, no. 47, previously
Sotheby's New York, December 12, 1997, lot 36, and Rippon
Boswell, November 18, 2000, lot 76. A blue ground
Caucasian carpet fragment with similar ascending flame
palmettes was sold at Phillips, London, September 30,
1986, lot 36, and subsequently exhibited by Eberhart
Herrmann in Munich, in 1987 (illustrated in Hali, Issue
34, p. 97). Whilst the current example and another from
the group, sold at Christie's New York, April 20 1994 as
lot 110, feature ascending flaming palmettes the Rippon
Boswell and the Burns carpets display palmettes in both
ascending and descending formation.
In 1991 this carpet was described in Hali 56, op. cit. as
"one of the few rugs sold so far this year to make
the heart sing". Twelve years later, despite the
subsequent appearance of a handful of "flame
palmette" Kurdish weavings, The Meyer-Müller carpet
is still the benchmark by which all others are placed and
is still judged to be the very best
Seen on www.sothebys.com
Oriental Rugs the O'Connell
Notes
Copyright Barry
O'Connell 2004 - 2007
Last revised: May 30, 2008.
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