‘Artful Weavings’ in San Francisco

February 7, 2017

Highlights from Peter Pap's exhibit

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Peter Pap will present highly collectible weavings from four well-known and important US private collections at two venues in February: with a special presentation at the newly relaunched San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show at Fort Mason from 9 February and then at his Jackson Square gallery from 15 February.

: Shahsevan sumak bag, 19th C (1st half), northwest Persia. This rare but iconic sumak bag was most likely woven in the Hashtrud-Miyaneh area of Azerbaijan in Northwest Persia. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Swan. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Shahsevan sumak bag, 19th C (1st half), Moghan-Savlan area of Azerbaijan, Caucasus. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Swan. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Comeplete shahsevan sumak bags, 19th C (1st half), Caucasus. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Swan. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Shahsevan rug, 19th C (1st half), Caucasus. Published in Edoardo Concaro and Alberto Levi “Sovereign Carpets:Unknown Masterpieces from European Collections” (1999). Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Swan Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Swan. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Shahsevan sumak bag, 19th C, Caucasus. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Swan. The pair to this bag is published in John Wertime’s “Sumak Bags of Northwest Persia and Trans-Caucasia” plate 63. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Swan. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Karabagh zili cover, late 19th C, Caucasus. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Swan. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Shahsevan sumak bag, 19th C, Caucasus. Collection of Dr. and Mrs. William T. Price. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Senneh kilim, c. 1900, Persia. Collection of Dr. and Mrs. William T. Price. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Qashqai, late 19th C. Property of the Thomas D. Cook Family Collection. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Shekarlu Qashqai, 19th C (2nd half). Property of the Thomas D. Cook Family Collection. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Afshar saddle cover, c. 1900, Persia. Property of the Thomas D. Cook Family Collection. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Shirvan Prayer Rug, 19th C (3rd Q), Caucasus. This prayer is inscribed and dated 1291, concurrent with the Western year 1874. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Baganz. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Afshar bagface, c. 1900, Persia. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Corwin. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Afshar, late 19th C. Collectors of south Persian tribal weaving sometimes refer to this design as ‘gol-i-kadkhodai,’ which translates from Farsi as ‘village headman’s flower’. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Corwin. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Afshar bagface, c. 1900, Persia. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Corwin. On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

: Afshar bagface, late 19th C., Persia. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Corwin On show in Artful Weavings, Peter Pap at San Francisco Tribal Art Show, Fort Mason, 9-12/02/17, then at Peter Pap Gallery 15/02-10/03/17.

Over the past few years, US dealer Peter Pap has provided collectors with an alternative path to disposing of pieces from their collection by allowing them to sell back into the collector community through his exhibitions held at his San Francisco gallery, at art and antiques fairs, through the 1St Dibs Gallery in New York, and online. Previously collectors deciding about how and where they should sell pieces had been a question of which auction house to choose rather than whether to sell at auction or not.

The success of these sales is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that Pap has secured pieces from five leading US collections for his next exhibition, ‘Artful Weavings’, the first edition of which opens at the San Francisco Textile & Tribal Art Show at Fort Mason on 9 February 2017. After the fair closes on 12 February, the Pap show will then move into his city centre gallery at Jackson Square from 15 February through to 10 March. The collections in question are the John (Jack) Corwin Collection of Afshar rugs and bags, featured in HALI 190, to which recently have been added the Thomas D. Cook Family Collection of Southwest Persian rugs, some significant Persian bags and rugs from the collection of Wendel and Diane Swan, including two iconic sumakh bags, some weavings from the Bruce and Terry Baganz Collection, and also rugs from the Dr and Mrs William T. Price Collection. All of the items included in the ‘Artful Weavings’ exhibition can be seen on the website.