Shahsavan Bag Face

Description

mid 19th century, 59 x 55 cm, South East Caucasus, Moghan-Savalan

This finely woven sumakh bag face by the Moghan Shahsavan used to be part of a khorjin. It shows one of the tribe’s archetypal designs, the so-called "turtle" gul which probably symbolises cosmological beliefs. A bag face of this kind was illustrated as early as 1969 on the cover of the influential flatweave exhibition catalogue, "From the Bosporus to Samarkand". A comparison of bags of this type reveals only minor differences: their composition, ornamentation and palette were so fixed by tribal tradition as to be virtually unalterable.

LANDREAU, ANTHONY N. & PICKERING, W. R., From the Bosporus to Samarkand. Flat-Woven Rugs. Washington, D.C. 1969, cover *** WERTIME, JOHN T., Sumak Bags of Northwest Persia & Transcaucasia. London 1998, no. 71 *** RIPPON BOSWELL: A 46, 16 November 1996, # 113; A 64, 20 November 2004, # 148; A 67, 20 May 2006, # 47; A 69, 19 May 2007, # 56; A 89, 28 May 2016, # 135

Condition

Original finishes all around. In very good overall condition.

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Shahsavan Bag Face

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