Internet price EUR 3900.-

Internet price EUR 11700.-

Internet price EUR 19500.-

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This is an early exemplar of this group of Turkoman carpets which is difficult to classify. A Chodor carpet exhibited in the Textile Museum in Washington and published on p. 121 in the literature mentioned below displays the same Gul motifs as the carpet shown here. The carpets` basic form, the inner form of the Gul motifs and the arrangement of the animal figures are the same. This carpet contains four rows of Gul motifs, while the Washington carpet only has three, but its size and proportions should be taken into account. The carpet shown here has the same length, but is 60 cm wider. The Guls lying in between correspond with the Gul motifs of a bag which is depicted in the same book. It also belongs to the Washington collection. The bag displays the same colouring as the carpet you can see here. The inner field of this Chodor has the same open and restful pattern. The Gul motifs are arranged diagonally. This becomes very obvious if you look at the red and blue motifs in the diagonals. The borders also correspond with early carpets of this provenance. They are simply and clearly patterned. The upper and lower transverse borders display spiral arabesques. The main border is characterized by a cross band. The empty spaces are filled with triangles and Ashik motifs trimmed with hooks.

Internet price EUR 29500.-

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In the second half of the 19th century, East Persia, particularly the Meshed region, possessed carpet manufactories which produced very delicate carpets. Village communities like Dorosh or also families like the Amoghlis etc were well-known in Persia and offered carpets of special sizes, designs and qualities. In most cases, the colouring was similar. The shades of red, in particular, were very much alike. It was a special bordeaux red with a certain portion of blue. Up to this day, this colour is called meshed red. The carpet shown here was probably made by a village community for the Golestan Palace in Teheran. Until the revolution in the 1970s three of these similarly knotted and patterned carpets were kept in one of the Palace`s rooms. The pattern consists of stripes with boteh motifs. Eleven stripes are arranged in the longitudinal direction. The middle longitudinal axis displays a main stripe which is accompanied by similar stripe motifs arranged in mirror-like repetition from the left to the right. A homogeneous mirror-like field pattern is thus created. The stripes do not differ in the colouring, but in the representation of the boteh motifs. The border surrounding the inner field also displays a stripe pattern, but in combination with other motifs. The main border is ornamented with a double arabesque pattern. Between these arabesques lie palmettes. The accompanying borders are formed by three stripes with delicate flowers which frame the inner and the outer sides in a mirror-like arrangement. The border is thus integrated into the enclosed inner field.

Internet price EUR 19500.-

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In the 19th century, very elaborately executed carpets were produced in the West Persian centres for carpet knotting like Ferahan, Senneh and Saruk. The materials used for these carpets were silk and selected colours in combination with a particularly delicate knotting technique and sometimes even trimmings of precious metals like gold or silver. In this niche carpet, great importance is also attached to the patterns. Ornaments taken from classical models are adopted in a very beautiful arrangement. The lower part of the beige-ground niche contains a beautifully shaped vase from which emerge large flowers and arabesque-shaped twigs. The twigs end in a large lotus flower at the upper end of the niche. Additional arabesques, leaf motifs, twigs and smaller or larger flowers with a very delicate filigree design are arranged freely in space and turn the entire inner field into a paradisiac tree of life. Two naturalistically depicted birds sit on either side of the tree, the upper birds carry butterflies in their beaks. This group of carpets often shows a prominent colour, a red ranging from aubergine to purple which is only used in those parts of the patterning where a special and distinct motif is supposed to stand out. Here, this colour is nicely displayed in the vase, the main element of the niche field. The areas above the arch crowning the upper end of the niche are coloured in a shining water blue. The corners are filled by two large prominent palmettes. The noticeable pastel colouring does not only occur in the inner field, but also in the borders. Fine palmettes and rosettes linked with arabesques and twigs are arranged on a ground which delicately matches with the inner field. The design of the intersecting points of the transverse and longitudinal borders is also remarkable. Large red lancet flowers were knotted into the borders in a diagonal arrangement matching with the border pattern.

Internet price EUR 7000.-

Internet price EUR 5500.-

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This small and unusual prayer kilim with its square shape and highly effective border ornamentation was woven in Eastern Turkey. The Ottoman flowers, carnations and hyacinths are shown to the best advantage. All pattern ornaments are arranged in the upward direction and accordingly shaped. The main border with its yellow to ochre ground forms an effective and meaningful pattern and consists of rising trees of life in the vertical borders and smaller flowers in the horizontal borders. Their stems carry beautiful geometrically shaped red-blue carnations. This impressive main border faces a small prayer niche which calls the time of the Seljuks to mind. According to the carpet`s age, the red-ground prayer niche is very freely patterned. It also contains upward-rising ornaments which have to be interpreted as flowers. The flowers` ground colours are set off against each other in yellow and blue. The flowers carry an opening bud at the top. A small white cup-shaped blossom with another small blue-ground blossom on top lies above the bud. The top of the prayer niche is formed by a terraced gable. The corner brackets above the gable are patterned with highly stylized floral motifs which probably represent eremurus flowers. The rectangular field formed by the prayer niche and the brackets is framed by a white-ground border. This border contains small cross motifs in red and blue. The white-ground cross border frames the kilim`s central field, while a second border of the same kind functions as the outside border. The inner cross border is surrounded by a red wavy arabesque from which grow small flowers (hyacinths). They are embedded into the yellow ground of the roof-like motif. The red-ground arabesque recurs in the dark blue outer border. The design and the execution of this carpet indicate that it is a slit kilim which must have been produced and freely designed in the mountains of Eastern Turkey.

Internet price EUR 7000.-

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In this exemplar, silk threads were used to achieve a lavish and well-structured pattern in shining colours on a very delicate beige ground fabric. The flowers are arranged in vertical rows, with six flowers in each row and the colour changing between blue and red. The change of colours creates a lively picture. Three stems executed in brown silk combine to form a flower, and each flower has six petals. The number “six” must have been used intentionally in this pattern. The embroidery is framed by a simple red chain-stitch border. The free design and free arrangement of the flowers as well as the shining colours and the exact, delicate execution indicate the carpet`s early origin. It was used for a familiy ritual or perhaps also as a cover for the Koran.

Internet price EUR 12500.-

Internet price EUR 12500.-

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The centre of this carpet displays a rare yellow ground and is surrounded by Buddhist symbols. These are inserted into blue cloudbands with two white lotus flowers. In each of these ornaments, the symbol lies at the centre. The symbols themselves are accompanied by the Chi sign, the sign of the little cloud which means good luck in Buddhist symbolism. The little clouds fill the gaps between the other ornaments and float freely in space. They circle the carpet`s actual centre which contains a rosette in the middle. Flowers and leaves arranged in pairs move outward from this point in a circle. The combination of the little clouds with Buddhist symbolism indicates that the entire middle field is dedicated to this subject. The brackets (corner motifs) are well-developed and ornamented relatively densely with a flower garland. The carpet`s yellow ground is bright and has a very open, free design. The main border is framed by a pearl border on blue ground, as in all other exemplars belonging to this group of carpets. The pearl border functions as the inside border framing the inner field, while the outer border is characterized by superb floral and arabesque ornaments. Each of the large flowers is executed in the carpet`s ground colour and accompanied by a pair of arabesques on the right and on the left. In the spaces between these ornaments, two bats are arranged around an octogonal blue-ground Shu, the sign of good luck. The border`s ornamentation is very regular, with the blue Shu lying in the middle of the upper and lower transverse borders and the upper and lower part of the longitudinal borders. The outer frame is self-coloured dark blue, as in many saddlecloths or shabracks.