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AN AKSARAY KILIM CENTRAL ANATOLIA, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY AN AKSARAY KILIM Enlarge Price Realized: £1,016, $1,881 Price includes buyer's premium Estimate: £800 - £1,200 ($1,482 - $2,222) Sale Information Sale 9959 oak, country furniture, folk art, works of art and sculpture including the adam clayton collection of rugs and carpets 10 November 2004 London, South Kensington Lot Description AN AKSARAY KILIM CENTRAL ANATOLIA, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY The field with eight tan, chestnut and ochre bands each containing a large serrated panel in similar colouring containing linked serrated hexagons, all divided by minor ivory bands of serrated leaves, a few scattered repairs 8ft.11in. x 3ft.9in. (302cm. x 114cm.) Lot Notes Three other kilims with very comparable designs have been published (Yanni Petsopoulos and Belkis Balpinar: 100 Kilims, exhibition catalogue, London, 1991, no.63; J.Mellaart, U. Hirsch and B. Balpinar: The Goddess from Anatolia, Milan, 1989, vol.I, p.81, fig.3; B. Frauenknecht: Early Turkish Tapestries, Nürnberg, 1984, pl.39. While the third of these was woven in two panels, the present example is also more similar to the first two in its minimal use of blue tones. Seen on http://www.Christies.com JBOC Note: The minor ivory bands of serrated leaves are extremely similar to what we often see in Karapinar Kilims See the minor bands in Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Kilim Circa 1800. |
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