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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
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Barry O'Connell 2004 - 2007
Last revised:
October 06, 2009.
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