End of Winter Auction of Rugs & Art

Antique Kazak Rug, 5'1" x 8'10" (1.55 x 2.69 M)

Vintage Tehran Rug, 3'4" x 5'6" (1.02 x 1.68 M)

Vintage Tabriz Rug, 8'2'' x 11'0'' (2.49 x 3.35 M)

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End of Winter Auction of Rugs & Art

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Antique Afshar Rug, 3'11" x 4'10" (1.19 x 1.47 M): Rows of small reversing botehs fill the navy subfield and the surrounding medium blue field, while in the centre is a large 12 lobe ivory medallion with ragged barbed edge and a red octogramme

6545: Antique Afshar Rug, 3'11" x 4'10" (1.19 x 1.47 M)Est. $3,000-$4,000Lot Passed

Vintage Kashan Rug, 4'3" x 7'3" (1.30 x 2.21 M): This vintage, well-woven city scatter shows a soft, 196=50's Kerman-style palette with an open straw-sand field dominated by a tall lozenge medallion partially defined by barbed, curved leaves. En

6596: Vintage Kashan Rug, 4'3" x 7'3" (1.30 x 2.21 M)Est. $2,500-$3,000Lot Passed

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Vintage Gabbeh Long Rug, 2'7" x 9'9" (0.79 x 2.97 M): wool pile rugs, usually scatter formats, woven by the Qashghai tribes of SW Persia (Fars Province), in moderate weave, uncluttered geometries and unshaded colours. From about 1900 onwards. Now

6609: Vintage Gabbeh Long Rug, 2'7" x 9'9" (0.79 x 2.97 M)Est. $1,200-$1,800

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Antique Bidjar Rug, 4'7" x 7'3" (1.40 x 2.21 M): Wool foundations, as here, characterize the extremely robust weaving of the Kurds in and around Bidjar town, and the most popular design/colour combination is the Herati on navy blue. The inner

6627: Antique Bidjar Rug, 4'7" x 7'3" (1.40 x 2.21 M)Est. $4,000-$6,000Lot Passed

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Aubusson Rug, 10' x 14' (3.05 x 4.27 M): Refers generally to modern carpets in tapestry technique and inspired by French Aubusson designs of the 18th and later centuries. Geometric or semi-floral. Scatters to room sizes. Recent pieces are

6692: Aubusson Rug, 10' x 14' (3.05 x 4.27 M)Est. $4,000-$6,000

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Antique Kazak Rug, 3'7" x 5'10" (1.09 x 1.78 M): SW Caucasus/Armenia. Boldly patterned, strongly coloured, totally geometric, all wool, coarse to moderate weave, medium to long pile, scatter format pieces, in medallion, allover and prayer

6715: Antique Kazak Rug, 3'7" x 5'10" (1.09 x 1.78 M)Est. $7,000-$9,000Lot Passed

6810: Antique Zehour Long Rug, 3'7" x 9'11" (1.09 x 3.02 M)Est. $8,000-$10,000Lot Passed

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Vintage Turkish Keisari Rug, 4'10" X 7'3" (1.47 x 2.21 M): The carpets, scatters, runners, long rugs and bags of the towns, villages and tribes of Anatolia, including: Oushak, Ghiordes, Kula, Ladik, Hereke, Konya, Melas, Bergama, Sivas, Kayseri and Yuruk.

6811: Vintage Turkish Keisari Rug, 4'10" X 7'3" (1.47 x 2.21 M)Est. $1,200-$1,800

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Semi Antique Silk Tabriz Rug, 6' x 8'3" (1.83 x 2.51 M): The enormous output of carpets and scatters in virtually every style: medallion, centralized, directional or allover,trein a variety of densities from moderate to extremely fine, in wool, silk and

6879: Semi Antique Silk Tabriz Rug, 6' x 8'3" (1.83 x 2.51 M)Est. $12,000-$15,000Lot Passed

Antique Bidjar Rug, 9'8" x 14'6" (2.95 x 4.42 M): A rare inscribed west Persian Kurdish city carpet with two columns of blue acanthus volutes, tangerine rosettes and joined forked arabesques, on an ecru ground. Main ecru border of forked arabesques,

6892: Antique Bidjar Rug, 9'8" x 14'6" (2.95 x 4.42 M)Est. $15,000-$20,000Lot Passed

Aubusson Rug, 7'11" x 10' (2.41 x 3.05 M): In an imaginative 19th century style, with a patterned elliptical central medallion, on an ecru field, with converging vases, roundels, fictive standards and various decorative acanthus fragments.

6927: Aubusson Rug, 7'11" x 10' (2.41 x 3.05 M)Est. $2,000-$3,000Lot Passed

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Aubusson Rug, 7'11" x 10'2" (2.41 x 3.10 M): Refers generally to modern carpets in tapestry technique and inspired by French Aubusson designs of the 18th and later centuries. Geometric or semi-floral. Scatters to room sizes. Recent pieces are

6963: Aubusson Rug, 7'11" x 10'2" (2.41 x 3.10 M)Est. $3,000-$4,000

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Aubusson Rug, 7'9" x 9'11" (2.36 x 3.02 M): Refers generally to modern carpets in tapestry technique and inspired by French Aubusson designs of the 18th and later centuries. Geometric or semi-floral. Scatters to room sizes. Recent pieces are

6980: Aubusson Rug, 7'9" x 9'11" (2.36 x 3.02 M)Est. $3,000-$4,000

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Antique Qashqai Rug, 5'2" x 8'3" (1.57 x 2.51 M): SW Persian, Fars Province, tribal large scatter with a light greyish-blue field supporting a red hexagonal subfield with an internal nail-head fringe. Qashghai"guls" figure in both the pale blue-grey

7020: Antique Qashqai Rug, 5'2" x 8'3" (1.57 x 2.51 M)Est. $1,800-$2,500Lot Passed

Vintage Turkish Hereke Silk & Metal Rug, 6'11" x 10'3" (2.11 x 3.12 M): The post-WWII, finely woven (or better), primarily silk scatters and larger rugs woven in Persian styles, often in niche (prayer) or medallion layouts, in a suburb of Istanbul, Turkey. Some copies

7048: Vintage Turkish Hereke Silk & Metal Rug, 6'11" x 10'3" (2.11 x 3.12 M)Est. $35,000-$45,000Lot Passed

Turkish Sumak Rug, 6' x 9' (1.83 x 2.74 M): A technique rather than a specific type, in which warps are wrapped by coloured wefts to create a pattern. Caucasian, Turkish, Persian and other types. Produces a flat surface, pileless rug which

7104: Turkish Sumak Rug, 6' x 9' (1.83 x 2.74 M)Est. $800-$1,200Lot Passed

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Vintage Dabir Kashan Rug, 4'3" x 7' (1.30 x 2.13 M): Central Persian city known for finely woven. room size and scatter rugs, with dominant reds and navy, and medallion patterns and swirling palmettes. Wool and a few silk pieces. Active since the 16th

7131: Vintage Dabir Kashan Rug, 4'3" x 7' (1.30 x 2.13 M)Est. $3,500-$4,500

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Antique Haji jalili Tabriz Rug, 4'6" x 6'3" (1.37 x 1.91 M): The well-woven to finely knotted 1890 to 1910 pieces woven in the eponymous workshop or its copyists, in Tabriz, in formats ranging from mats to giant carpets, with prayer (niche), allover and

7143: Antique Haji jalili Tabriz Rug, 4'6" x 6'3" (1.37 x 1.91 M)Est. $3,000-$5,000

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Antique Bakhshayesh Rug, 3'10" x 11'11" (1.17 x 3.63 M): This moderately woven NW Persia kenare (runner) shows a powder field set with three bold versions of the Karaja octogramme, in red, straw, and straw-goldenrod. Ragged red palmettes at field end

7172: Antique Bakhshayesh Rug, 3'10" x 11'11" (1.17 x 3.63 M)Est. $5,000-$7,000Lot Passed

Antique Varamin Long Rug, 2'6" x 22'2" (0.76 x 6.76 M): The village rugs of this locale in central Persia. Carpets with cotton foundations are usually blue ground, with Mina Khani rosette trellis allover patterns, while the all wool bags show Turkmen guls

7231: Antique Varamin Long Rug, 2'6" x 22'2" (0.76 x 6.76 M)Est. $3,000-$5,000Lot Passed

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Turkish Oushak Rug, 6' x 9' (1.83 x 2.74 M): Town in Western Anatolia, weaving mostly room sizes, in coarse to moderate weave, high pile. Antiques are all wool, changing to cotton foundations in the 1920's. Geometric or Persian-derived

7251: Turkish Oushak Rug, 6' x 9' (1.83 x 2.74 M)Est. $1,500-$2,000

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Indo Heriz Rug, 11'7" x 18' (3.53 x 5.49 M): A very precisely drawn modern takeoff on an eternally popular type. It closely follows the originals with a red field hosting a navy octogramme medallion and red sub-medallion. Stepped ivory corners

7263: Indo Heriz Rug, 11'7" x 18' (3.53 x 5.49 M)Est. $3,500-$4,500Lot Passed

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Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, 12'1" x 15' (3.68 x 4.57 M): This Anatolian interpretation of a Persian Tabriz model features a tastefully abrashed open red subfield, centred by a cream and green crenellated medallion with ragged and floral pendants. The pale

7271: Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, 12'1" x 15' (3.68 x 4.57 M)Est. $8,000-$10,000

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Antique Serapi Rug, 10'8" x 18'10" (3.25 x 5.74 M): A higher grade of Heriz carpets, usually in medallion designs, with crisp natural dyes, and primarily woven between 1900 and 1930. Red field, navy border is the most popular combination.

7276: Antique Serapi Rug, 10'8" x 18'10" (3.25 x 5.74 M)Est. $20,000-$25,000Lot Passed

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