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Sotheby's Carpets
Sale: N08140 | Location: New York
LOT 128
AN ERSARI BESHIR PRAYER RUG, SOUTH TURKESTAN,
18,000—22,000 USD
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium:
20,400 USD
MEASUREMENTS
approximately 3ft. 6in. by 2ft. 6in. (1.07 by
0.76m.)
DESCRIPTION
third quarter 19th century
Condition Note: original flatwoven elems,
CATALOGUE NOTE
This rug with an entirely open ivory ground
beneath a partial ikat-inspired gul functioning
as the arch is extremely unusual and possibly
unique. The structure, coloring, and ikat-derived
gul are typical of Ersari weavings, with a few
examples being a chuval sold Sotheby's London, 12
October 2005, lot 6 and a gallery carpet sold
Sotheby's New York, 15 December 1994, lot 122.
The zigzag border is also found in numerous
Ersari Beshir works including a main carpet sold
in these rooms, 15 December 2000, lot 43 and in a
prayer rug also sold here 11 December 1981, lot
42. The milk white ground and starkness of design
here brings to mind the Ersari saph fragments
that were commissioned by the Emir Sayed Muzaffar
ad-Din Bahadur Khan in 1874 and that are now in
the Magaki Attari Mosque Museum, Bokhara (see
Moshkova, V.G. Carpets of the People of Central
Asia, Tucson, 1996, fig. 129, p. 292 and
dustjacket.) Two fragments of a saph closely
related to the Bokhara museum piece have appeared
at auction recently, Christie's London, 17
October 2002, lot 141 and Sotheby's London, 29
April 1998, lot 96.Seen on www.Sothebys.com
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