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Sotheby's Carpets from the Estate of Vojtech
Blau
Sale: N08291 | Location: New York
Auction Dates: Session 1: Thu, 14 Dec 06 10:00 AM
LOT 39
A
SHIRVAN MARASALI PRAYER RUG, EAST CAUCASUS,
25,000—35,000 USD
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium:
90,000 USD
MEASUREMENTS
approximately 4ft. 2in. by 3ft. 4in. (1.27 by
1.02m.)
DESCRIPTION
circa 1875
silk foundation
Condition Note: minor moth damage, repaired
slits, missing selvages
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Knot density: 15-16 horizontal, 28-30 vertical
PROVENANCE
Collection of Andrew R. Dole, Oak Park, Illinois,
sold Robert C. Eldred Co., East Dennis, Mass.,
June 24, 1976, lot 38
CATALOGUE NOTE
The rug is one of a small group of East Caucasian
rugs woven on a silk foundation. It is so fine
that it was incorrectly catalogued as a Senna
prayer rug when it was sold in 1976. A very
simliar example also with a design of a
blossom-filled trellis and yellow prayer arch was
once in the collection of the Yale University Art
Gallery, sold in these rooms on May 31, 1986, lot
7 and is now in the collection of James Burns,
see Burns, James D., The Caucasus: Traditions in
Weaving, Seattle, 1987, pl. 7. Another related
example, with the blossoms following a V pattern
as in this and the Burns piece, is illustrated in
Kaffel, Ralph, Caucasian Prayer Rugs, London,
1998, pl. 94, and one of similar design on a wool
foundation is in Herrmann, Eberhart, Seltene
Orientteppiche IX, Munich, 1987, pl. 37.Seen
on www.sothebys.com
JBOC Notes:
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