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Sotheby's Carpets
Sale: N08503 | Location: New York
Auction Dates: Session 1: Tue, 25 Nov 08 10:00 AM
LOT 51
AN ERSARI RUG, MIDDLE AMU DARYA, CENTRAL ASIA,
40,000—60,000 USD
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium:
30,000 USD
MEASUREMENTS
approximately 6ft. 3in. by 3ft. 2in. (1.90 by
0.97m.)
DESCRIPTION
late 18th century
original kilim ends, missing outer side guard
stripes, foldwear, hole, repaired foldwear slits
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Warp: wool, Z2S, natural brown
Weft: wool, 2 shoots, natural brown
Pile: wool, asymmetric knot open to the right
Density: 8 horizontal, 8 vertical
Sides: not original
Ends: Upper with 1/2 to 1-1/2 inch red and blue
striped kilim;
Lower with 1/2 to 2 inch red and blue striped
kilim
Colors: ivory, madder red, soft persimmon, deep
blue, blue-green, yellow, brown
CATALOGUE NOTE
The highly unusual design of this rug, featuring
leafy branches on an ivory field, is shared with
two prayer rugs (namazlyks) one published by
Eberhart Herrmann, Asiatische Teppich-und
Textilkunst, band 3, Munich, 1991, pl. 59, pp.
126-127 and one in the Museum of Ethnography, St.
Petersburg, see Elena Tzareva, Rugs and Carpets
from Central Asia, Leningrad, 1984, pl. 98, p.
147. A rug with a more stylized version of this
design is also found on lot 71 in this catalogue.
In the present example, as in the Herrmann and
St. Petersburg rugs, the ivory ground sets off
the variety of colors found in the curling
bat-shaped leaves (see Georg Butterweck, et al,
Antique Oriental Carpets from Austrian
Collections, Vienna, 1986, no. 120a describing
the rug subsequently published by Herrmann) which
appear to shimmer and flutter across the surface
of the rug. Unlike the two sited examples, the
present rug does not have the two columns or
arch, which lends the design more of a free
character. All three rugs have different border
systems although all are found on other Ersari
weavings with that of the present rug similar to
one on the grand ivory ground Mosque saph
fragments now in the Bokhara Museum, see V.G.
Moshkova, Carpets of the People of Central Asia,
Tucson, Arizona, 1996, pl. 129.Seen on www.Sothebys.com
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