Category Archive 'Oriental Rugs'

01 Oct 2023

Important Rug

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Safavid red-ground ‘Palmette and Bird’ carpet, circa 1565-75

Christie’s Auction 21892 London 26 – 25 OCT
Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets, Lot 150:

A SAFAVID RED-GROUND ‘PALMETTE AND BIRD’ CARPET
POSSIBLY QAZVIN, NORTH PERSIA, CIRCA 1565-1575
Wool pile on a silk and cotton foundation, lacking outer stripe, areas of negligible wear, localised reweaves and restoration, sides rebound, an additional tape applied on all four sides
16ft.9in. x 7ft.3in. (517cm. x 225cm.)

PROVENANCE
Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934), Paris
With Colnaghi Oriental, London, circa 1975
With The Textile Gallery and Elio Cittone, Milan
Roberto Calvi, Milan
Canadian Collector, sold Christie’s London, 17 October 1996, lot 404
Private Collector, sold Sotheby’s New York, 20 September 2001, lot 221
Gordon P. Getty, sold Sotheby’s New York, 1 February 2013, lot 22, from where purchased by the present owner

Estimate
GBP 2,000,000 – GBP 3,000,000 — $2,393,400.00 – $3,590m100.00

See essay & video.

14 May 2015

New Old Rug

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Gendje2
You can display old rugs like this as art.

Gendje1
Good old ones have lots of wear, or costs lots of thousands.

Gendje3
Close-up view of pattern.

Described by seller as an “antique Caucasian Gendje rug, 19th Century, size: 37” x 65”, natural, vegetable dyes, worn condition.”

JBOC’s notes on Gendje rugs.

I thought I’d post some photos, since Bird Dog over at Maggies’s Farm is an aficionado of old rugs. Tomorrow, I’ll tell you just how I came to appreciate shot-down old carpets exhibiting lots of wear.

06 Feb 2014

I Like His Carpets

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Henrik Nordenberg, The Artist’s Studio, 1891.

Hat tip to Madame Scherzo.

15 Apr 2009

The Aynard Carpet

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Aynard carpet, Mughal pashmina, Kashmir, circa 1630-1640. . 4′. 1 ” x 2′. 11 ” (124.5cm x 90cm). Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid.

– Click on image for link to larger picture at web-site of Pakistan firm attempting to produce a reproduction.

One of the principal contributors at fellow boutique blog Maggie’s Farm has done several postings on the Oriental Rug, and I thought he’d enjoy a look at this particular example. I like rugs, too, but ours are all rolled up and stored away in our house right now, since we adopted a Basset Bleu de Gascoigne named Cadet. Dogs will reliably regurgitate the latest nasty thing they found out in the yard by preference right in the middle of your favorite and most expensive antique oriental rug.

[T]he Aynard carpet, considered one of the greatest pashmina knotted Mughal carpets, contains a bouquet of blossoms that resemble octopi floating languorously on a crimson sky filled with dragon-head chi clouds. Here, we enter the surreal world of the artist’s brilliant imagination, whose floral bouquet of voluptuous efflorescence sweeps us away into a metaphysical reverie.

Frank Ames.

14 Apr 2008

The Old Bazaar in Kashan, Iran

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Afshin Memarian photo
Timcheh Amin-o-Dowleh, Kashan Bazaar

Ahshin Memarian photographs the Old Bazaar in Kashan, Isfahan, Iran.

Kashan rugs

Mr, Memarian is a rug dealer. His commercial web-site is here.


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