Exceptional Spring Auction: Art & Rugs

Antique Mohtasham Kashan Rug, 7'8" x 9'7" (2.34 x 2.92 M)

Mid Century French Tapestry Signed by Sonya de Launey, 4'8" x 5'7" (4'8" x 5'7" M)

Antique Serapi Rug, 9'11" x 15'3" (3.02 x 4.65 M)

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Exceptional Spring Auction: Art & Rugs

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1stbid is excited to announce our upcoming Art and Rugs Online Auction, taking place on Sunday, March 26th, 2023. The auction will showcase a stunning collection of fine art and handmade rugs from around the world, featuring an array of styles and designs to suit every taste and budget. Attendees will have the opportunity to bid on a wide range of high-quality rugs, including antique, vintage, contemporary, and collectible pieces. Our curated selection includes room-size Persian and Oriental carpets from the 19th and 20th centuries, top-grade Heriz, Tabriz, Sarouk, Mohtasham Kashan, and Bakhshaish pieces, colorful 19th-century Caucasian scatter rugs, Persian and Turkish silk rugs, tribal pieces of various sizes, and fine European rugs such as Savonnerie and vintage Swedish flat weaves. In addition to our exceptional rug collection, the auction will feature a range of fine art pieces, including paintings, sculptures, and mixed media works by renowned artists. Whether you're an art collector or an interior designer, this auction is the perfect opportunity to add a unique and stylish piece to your collection. The event will take place entirely online, giving bidders from around the world the opportunity to participate in this exciting event from the comfort of their own homes. Our online bidding platform is user-friendly and secure, making it easy and convenient to participate in the auction. "We are thrilled to showcase such a diverse collection of art and rugs at our upcoming online auction," says Victor Mashihi, President at 1stbid. "From traditional Persian carpets to contemporary art pieces, there is truly something for everyone. We invite all art and rug enthusiasts to join us for this exciting event." The Art and Rugs Online Auction will take place on Sunday, March 26th, 2023. Bidding will begin at 2 PM EST, and the auction is open to the public. For more information and to register for online bidding, please visit www.1stbid.com.

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Vintage Tibetan Rug, 5'8" x 7'11" (1.73 x 2.41 M): The less-is-more Gabbeh style has spread worldwide, and here is a vintage Tibetan contribution with a plain red abrashed field and corner squares with single smaller square accents. Like colour

0103: Vintage Tibetan Rug, 5'8" x 7'11" (1.73 x 2.41 M)Est. $1,500-$2,000

Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug, 5'7'' x 7'7'' (1.70 x 2.31 M): With a slightly softened palette, this well-woven piece shows a sienna scalloped and pointed field centred by an octogrammed palmette medallion developing flowering stems, Old ivory corners with

0108: Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug, 5'7'' x 7'7'' (1.70 x 2.31 M)Est. $3,000-$4,000Lot Passed

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Turkish Sumak Rug, 10' x 14' (3.05 x 4.27 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

0234: Turkish Sumak Rug, 10' x 14' (3.05 x 4.27 M)Est. $3,000-$4,000

Antique Heriz Rug, 3'1'' x 4'6'' (0.94 x 1.37 M): The ecru field is centred by a stepped red subfield enclosing a conforming navy and red medallion with a four way ecru focal motif. Medium blue corners with stepped and barbed red surrounds. Navy

0298: Antique Heriz Rug, 3'1'' x 4'6'' (0.94 x 1.37 M)Est. $2,000-$2,500Lot Passed

Vintage Shiraz Rug, 5'6" x 7'10" (1.68 x 2.39 M): A portmanteau for any hard-to-isolate SW Persian tribal style rug. Usually refers to Khamseh pieces, but may include Qashghai and Luri work. Such rugs usually turn up in the Shiraz city bazaar. The

0378: Vintage Shiraz Rug, 5'6" x 7'10" (1.68 x 2.39 M)Est. $1,200-$1,800Lot Passed

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Antique Cacasian Perpedil Rug, 3'7" x 4'10" (1.09 x 1.47 M): East Caucasian village scatter with the characteristic Perpedil design of rams' horns, daggers, octagons and birds, on a navy ground. Red, rust and green details. Navy main border of ecru knots and

0488: Antique Cacasian Perpedil Rug, 3'7" x 4'10" (1.09 x 1.47 M)Est. $6,000-$8,000

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Semi Antique Ghouchan Rug, 3'9" x 4'10" (1.14 x 1.47 M): Not Ghouchan or Quchan Kurd, but likely an untrimmed saddle rug from an unidentified east Persian tribe. Stripes alternate in cream and near black, with uniform ribbon meanders. The octagonal section

0558: Semi Antique Ghouchan Rug, 3'9" x 4'10" (1.14 x 1.47 M)Est. $800-$1,000

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Antique Malayer Rug, 5' x 8'10" (1.52 x 2.69 M): A cerulean blue abrash jumps out in the border at one end, but the general palette is quiet on this elongated west Persian scatter. The shaped field shows a Heriz-style medallion against divided

0564: Antique Malayer Rug, 5' x 8'10" (1.52 x 2.69 M)Est. $3,000-$4,000

Bronze Sculpture Charles Brunin: Fine Quality Bronze Sculpture Titled "The Neapolitan Fisherman with A Bird" by Charles Brunin A young man sitting on a ship dock by the sea, admires a bird who has just landed on his arm. Artist

0123: Bronze Sculpture Charles BruninEst. $8,000-$12,000Lot Passed

Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, 3'8" x 5'3" (1.12 x 1.60 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

0237: Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, 3'8" x 5'3" (1.12 x 1.60 M)Est. $2,000-$3,000Lot Passed

Vintage Heriz Rug, 8' x 11'2" (2.44 x 3.40 M): Pairs of crisp, veined, curled ecru leaves define the allover pattern of palmettes and poles, accented in green, mustard, burnt salmon and light blue. The elaborately developed reversing turtle

0296: Vintage Heriz Rug, 8' x 11'2" (2.44 x 3.40 M)Est. $3,000-$4,000Lot Passed

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Antique Heriz Rug, 3'0" x 6'0" (0.91 x 1.83 M): The numerous rugs of the famous NW Persian weaving district, from small scatters to giant carpets and a few runners, in semi-geometric medallion, centralised and strictly allover patterns, on cotton

0301: Antique Heriz Rug, 3'0" x 6'0" (0.91 x 1.83 M)Est. $3,000-$4,000

Antique Bakhshaish Long Rug, 3'8" x 13'7" (1.12 x 4.14 M): A type of Heriz, generally in squarish sizes, allover patterns and coarse to moderate weaves, wool or mixed constructions; woven before 1900. Term is often extended to early medallion, later 19th

0530: Antique Bakhshaish Long Rug, 3'8" x 13'7" (1.12 x 4.14 M)Est. $6,000-$8,000Lot Passed

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Oil on Canvas Orest Adamovich Kiprensky: Oil on Canvas Orest Adamovich Kiprensky 35 1/4" x 28 3/4"

0270: Oil on Canvas Orest Adamovich KiprenskyEst. $35,000-$40,000

Vintage Turkish Rug, 9' x 10'8" (2.74 x 3.25 M): This very attractive postwar carpet shows an ecru field with an allover ascending design of ragged palmettes,petal palmettes, a vase ad stiff stems, detailed in green, goldenrod, rust and navy.

0135: Vintage Turkish Rug, 9' x 10'8" (2.74 x 3.25 M)Est. $5,000-$7,000Lot Passed

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0299: Vintage Heriz Rug, 7' x 10' (2.13 x 3.05 M)Est. $4,000-$6,000

Antique Farahan Sarouk Rug, 11' x 13'3" (3.35 x 4.04 M): The ecru field displays a balanced, allover pattern of various types of palmettes and oval rosettes, with stem and floret linkages, detailed in teal, green, navy and shades of red. Mulberry red,

0394: Antique Farahan Sarouk Rug, 11' x 13'3" (3.35 x 4.04 M)Est. $25,000-$35,000Lot Passed

Egptian Saltanabad Rug, 9' x 12'2" (2.74 x 3.71 M): In the Sultanabad style with large, bold lazy and upright palmettes, and with a nearly pastel palette of cream, rust, teal, light green, light blue and straw; all connected by lightly convex barbed

0105: Egptian Saltanabad Rug, 9' x 12'2" (2.74 x 3.71 M)Est. $4,000-$6,000Lot Passed

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Antique Heriz Rug, 9'10'' x 11'4'' (3.00 x 3.45 M): The abrashed dark indigo field of this rustic Northwest Persian square carpet displaysa a modified Minsa Khani lattice of two rosette types, with lesser rosettes and small dots enlivening the ground.

0201: Antique Heriz Rug, 9'10'' x 11'4'' (3.00 x 3.45 M)Est. $10,000-$12,000

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Antique Shirvan Rug, 3'5" x 5'5" (1.04 x 1.65 M): Eastern Caucasian, west Caspian Caucasian rugs, primarily scatters, in geometric layouts, some prayer, from a wide range of local villages. Marasali prayer rugs are considered as the best.. Some

0480: Antique Shirvan Rug, 3'5" x 5'5" (1.04 x 1.65 M)Est. $6,000-$8,000

Antique Nain Toudeshk Rug, 4'9'' x 8'5'' (1.45 x 2.57 M): This relatively early, Interwar large scatter eschews the usual medallion pattern for a dense allover pattern based on full ivory four palmette quatrefoils and half ivory octogrammes on a deep navy

0337: Antique Nain Toudeshk Rug, 4'9'' x 8'5'' (1.45 x 2.57 M)Est. $8,000-$12,000Lot Passed

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Antique Pictoral Afshar Rug, 3'11" x 7'2" (1.19 x 2.18 M): Refers to the tribes of SE Persia (Kerman Province) who weave a wide variety of styles, including Herati,. boteh, medallion, textile, stripes, urban and rustic. Antique examples are all wool, later

0563: Antique Pictoral Afshar Rug, 3'11" x 7'2" (1.19 x 2.18 M)Est. $1,500-$2,000

Vintage Joshaghan Rug, 3'7" x 5'4" (1.09 x 1.63 M): Transport yourself to a bygone era with this exquisite vintage Joshaghan rug. Handcrafted by skilled artisans, this rug features a classic geometric pattern with rich colors and intricate details.

0568: Vintage Joshaghan Rug, 3'7" x 5'4" (1.09 x 1.63 M)Est. $1,200-$1,500Lot Passed

Persian Bakhshayesh Rug, 4'1" x 5'10" (1.24 x 1.78 M): This antique rustic NW Persian scatter presents a deep blue serrated leaf lozenge lattice enclosing four distinct row styles of flowers including poppies and prunus. Straw-gold rosette border.

0531: Persian Bakhshayesh Rug, 4'1" x 5'10" (1.24 x 1.78 M)Est. $3,000-$4,000Lot Passed

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