Posts Tagged ‘colour’

BAKHTIARI RUNNER, SERAPI RUG, TURKMAN JUVAL, TABRIZ RUG, TURKISH GELIM, YURUK PRAYER RUG, TURKMAN SUSANI

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

BAKHTIARI RUNNER, SERAPI RUG, TURKMAN JUVAL, TABRIZ RUG, TURKISH GELIM, YURUK PRAYER RUG, TURKMAN SUSANI
A BAKHTIARI RUNNER, the walnut field with
three medallions and sprays of flowers, three
borders, 13/f. 2m. by 3ft. 8m. (401cm. by 112cm.),
circa 1920, condition: fair.
A SAROUGH RUG, the indigo field with a design
of flowerheads and arabesques, three borders,
Aft. 9in. by 3ft. 6m. [...]

AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY, Louis XV AUBUSSON HUNTING TAPESTRY, Louis XIV GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY, BRUSSELS ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY, Louis XV AUBUSSON HUNTING TAPESTRY, Louis XIV GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY, BRUSSELS ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY
A FINE AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY of The Fountain of Love, from the series
La Noble Pastorale, after Frangois Boucher, three pairs of figures grouped around a large
stone fountain, including two girls untying a billet-doux from the neck of a dove,
9ft. lOin. [...]

NORTH GERMAN TAPESTRY CUSHION COVERS - FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY - BRUSSELS TAPESTRY OF THE LAMENTATION - Louis XV FELLETIN VERDURE TAPESTRY PANEL

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

NORTH GERMAN TAPESTRY CUSHION COVERS - FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY - BRUSSELS TAPESTRY OF THE LAMENTATION - Louis XV FELLETIN VERDURE TAPESTRY PANEL
A PAIR OF NORTH GERMAN TAPESTRY CUSHION COVERS, one woven with John the
Baptist preaching in the Wilderness (Mark 1:4) the other with the Beheading (Mark 6:28)
surrounded by brightly coloured floral borders woven with roses, [...]

A Veramin Rug - Afshar Rug - Karajar Runner - A Kurdish Rug - A Ghashghai Rug - A Turkman Tekke Rug - A Kashan Rug

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

A Veramin Rug - Afshar Rug - Karajar Runner - A Kurdish Rug - A Ghashghai Rug - A Turkman Tekke Rug - A Kashan Rug
An unusual Afshar Rug, the ivory field decorated with stylized cypress trees, shrubs and flowerheads, the aubergine border with geometric flowerheads, single florai guard stripes.
A Veramin Rug, the beige field [...]

Bakhtiari Carpet, Feraghan, Isfahan Carpet, Heriz Rug

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

AN ANTIQUE KAZAK RUNNER
the charcoal-black field with nine stylised multicolouredll
lozenge medallions, each with smaflowerheads encircling hooked and floral centrepiece divided by similar triple small lozenges, leafy vines and flowerheads, in an ivory broad border of polychrome crab-reciprocal skittle-pattern and barber-pole stripes, short kelim at each end, small damage on outer stripes 312cm.
SAROUK CARPET
the ivory field [...]

Antique Meshed Carpet, Sarouk Rug, Persian Carpet, Sennen Kelim, Tebriz Carpet

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Antique Meshed Carpet, Sarouk Rug, Persian Carpet, Sennen Kelim, Tebriz Carpet
MESHED AMOGIILI CARPET
the ivory field with overall design of various stylised multicoloured palmettos, meandering leafy vines and flowerheads surrounded by shaded brick-red border of polychrome palmettes, flowerheads and leafy vines
between sea-green meandering palmetto vine stripes, outer indigo ribbon and ivory plain stripes, signature cartouche at [...]

19th Century Chinese Carpets

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Antique Chinese Carpets
It is only in the last few decades that Chinese carpets, previously overshadowed by the enthusiasm of collectors for Persian carpets, have been given the attention they long deserved. While the quality of Chinese carpets declined at the end of the 19th century, in part due to an increasing use of chemical dyes, [...]