More eye candy at Rippon Boswell, 25 May
In addition to the Central Asian Suzani embroideries featured in an earlier post, Rippon Boswell’s Spring Sale of antique carpets and textiles in Wiesbaden next Saturday, 25 May 2013, contains a typically well presented array of fine, mainly 19th century, collectable tribal and village rugs, trappings and other weavings from the carpet belt of Eurasia and beyond. While lacking any significant ‘head-line’ lots from the ‘classical’ vocabulary, the present consignment includes beautiful Turkmen, Baluch and Kurdish rugs and bags, handsome Qashqa’i and Khamseh material from southwestern Iran, some unusual Anatolian kilims, a selection of other Turkish and Caucasian rugs, both flat-woven and in knotted-pile, Chinese carpets and even an excellent Saltillo serape from halfway around the world in northern Mexico. This album offers, in no particular order, an editorial selection of some of the best, and best-looking, lots.
Lot 114, Karabagh kelleh, 18th century, est. €35,000
Lot 75, Qashqa’i bagface, southwest Persia, late 19th century. Estimate €3,200
Lot 48. Salor Turkmen chuval, 19th century. Estimate €4,600
Lot 181. Saryk Turkmen kapunuk, 19th century. Estimate €5,900
Lot 52. Karapinar kilim saf, central Anatolia, 18th century, Estimate €18,000
Lot 173. Kurdish kilim, northwest Persia, circa 1800. Estimate €22,000
Lot 119. Daghestan prayer rug, northeast Caucasus, early 20th century. Estimate €4,400
Lot 190. Baluch prayer rug, Khorasan, early 20th century. Estimate €1,200
Lot 73, Bakhtiari gabbeh, west central Persia, late 19th century. Estimate €6,000
Lot 31. Arabachi Turkmen Chuval, first half 19th century. Estimate €6,000
Lot 46. Ottoman kilim, west Anatolia, 18th century. Estimate €46,000
Lot 47. Salor Turkmen main carpet fragment, circa 1800. Estimate €15,500
Lot 19. Tekke Turkmen main carpet, ca.1800 or earlier. Estimate €14,500
Lot 180. Karachov Kazak rug, southwestern Caucasus, mid-19th century. Estimate €24,000
Lot 147. Qashqa’i Kashkuli rug, southwest Persia, late 19th century. Estimate €26,000
Lot 53. Erzurum kilim, northeast Anatolia, ca. 1800. Estimate €12,000
Lot 113. Baluch mat, Khorasan, late 19th century. Estimate €1.200
Lot 150. Shahsavan sumakh cover, Moghan region, southeast Caucasus, first half 19th century. Estimate €45,000
Lot 122. Bakhshaish rug, northwest Persia, mid-19th century. Estimate €12,000
Lot 186. Baluch ‘bird’ bag face, Khorasan, late 19th century. Estimate €2,500
Lot 160. Tekke Turkmen torba, ca. 1800. Estimate €5,500
Lot 42. Davaghin kilim, Daghestan, northeast Caucasus, second half 19th century. Estimate €6,000
Lot 151. Kurdish rug, east Anatolia, first half 19th century. Estimate €18,000
Lot 201. Ningxia carpet, west China, second half 18th century. estimate €19,000
Lot 54. Saltillo serape, north Mexico, first half 19th century. Estimate €12,000
Lot 202. Ushak prayer kilim, west Anatolia, mid-19th century. Estimate €7,500
Lot 55. Gansu carpet, west China, first half 19th century. Estimate €26,000
Lot 72. Southeast Anatolian yatak, 19th century. Estimate €17,500
Lot 164. Khamseh bag face, southwest Persia, mid 19th century. Estimate €4,600
Lot 200, Chibta, flatwoven reeds with woollen embroidery, Daghestan, northeast Caucasus, early 20th century. Estimate €6,000.
