Carpet Auction at Henry’s, Mutterstadt, 10 June 2017

June 2, 2017

Henry’s Auctions in Mutterstadt, Germany will hold its 9th International Special Auction of Rugs & Carpets on Saturday 10 June 2017. The 321 lots encompass a wide variety of late 19th and 20th-century Persian, Caucasian, Anatolian, Chinese, Tibetan and Turkmen rugs.

Among older pieces are a late-classical-period (17th century) Spanish (Alcaraz or Cuenca) ‘Lotto’ design fragment, an Ushak saf fragment, a handful of pre-1900 Caucasians and Turkmens, an Aleppo silk and metal thread prayer kilim, and a Yarkand blue-ground pomegranate carpet. Worth noting is a large consignment of first half 20th-century Iranian town rugs and carpets, many of them pictorials, from the Abdi Roubeni Collection, as well as a private collection of Tibetan rugs consigned by the heirs of the late Abdolrahim Dilmanian, a well-known Hamburg carpet dealer. There is also a large consignment of late-20th-century ultra-fine small-format Herekes, and another of Chinese rugs, including an inscribed late Qing Beijing silk carpet made for a specific room in the imperial palace.

Yarkand Pomegranate Design Carpet, East Turkestan, first half 19th century, estimate €8,500–15,000

Sehna Carpet, West Persia, 19th century, estimate €14,500–18,000

Karachov Kazak Rug, Southwest Caucasus, 19th century, estimate €5,500–13,000

Fachralo Kazak Rug, Southwest Caucasus, 19th century, estimate €4,500–9,500

Dragon Verni, Southeast Caucasus, 19th century, estimate €4,500–13,000

Signed ‘Saber’ Mashad Carpet from the Collection of Abdi Roubeni, Northeast Persia, circa 1950, estimate €25,000- 35,000

Inscribed Chinese Imperial Palace Silk & Metal-Thread Dragon Rug, West China, 19th century, estimate €25,000–35,000

Silk & Silver Metal-Thread Aleppo Prayer Kilim, North Syria, first half 19th century, estimate €4,500–12,000

Heriz Carpet, Northwest Persia, 19th century, estimate €5,500–12,500

Silk Tabriz Prayer Rug, Northwest Persia, late 19th century, estimate €3,500–8,500

Silk & Metal-Thread Souf-Kashan Carpet, Central Persia, 19th century, estimate €25,000–45,000

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