2019 Rare Aspen Show
Animals, both fantasy and real are featured in this wonderful Farahan Sarouk. Featured on the wall is a Finnish carpet (12069) with reindeers and a French rug (3313) made for the original Art Deco exhibition in 1925.
Animals, both fantasy and real are featured in this wonderful Farahan Sarouk. Featured on the wall is a Finnish carpet (12069) with reindeers and a French rug (3313) made for the original Art Deco exhibition in 1925.
An Irish carpet circa 1930’s using the Turkish Oushak Design vocabulary
The iceberg is slowly disintegrating in this depiction that is quite beautiful. The materials used are wool, silk, and hemp
Part of our booth, which featured both spectacular Persian silk rugs and tribal pieces A wonderful Oushak rug (7025) that we loaned to Christine Magne Antiquaire for their booth A Gabbeh “lion” rug that we placed in the Framont booth at the show An unusual double niched Turkish rug that helped…
Extremely Rare! This is the only example of its type in silk that we have encountered in the last six decades of dealing in fine rugs. The design is a larger scaled “Herati” pattern one occasionally sees on this, a good example of the so-called “Farahan Sarouk” carpets of the 19th century. The cream…
Like a “souf” carpet, this rug has the background at a lower hight than the floral design of the field
The original so-called “Gabbeh” carpets of the second to third quarter of the 20th century such as this example, are a wonderful example of indiginous art from the tribes that roam the mountains of Iran in search of grazing areas for their flocks. The materials used in creating these modernist seeming pieces are natural…
A great combination of traditional Kerman design elements such as the “flowering Boteh” along with the “mille fleur” inspired flower head design borrowed from the European textiles locals were starting to have access to at the time. The use of the sophisticated “broken border” corners and colors/dyes used in this rug point to a circa 1870’s…
Superb example of the best in Persian village weaving. Bakhshayesh carpets are from the same area as the more commonly known Heriz carpets, but are of older vintage and tend to have very open, uncluttered design. The plain camel colored border on this rug is very rare, somewhat evocative of the Serab rugs of the…
A Ningxia temple rug where each square was meant to be used by one monk
A wonderful colorful Persian rug featuring rust, green, and saffron tones
A magnificent, multi-colored wide runner fine quality and excellent condition. Circa 1910, this piece has splashes of yellow, green, rust, and oatmeal on a pleasantly medium blue background
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This rug looks like an antique but is not. It is a Persian contemporary rug using traditional designs but with more contemporary color tones
An unusually small Khotan from the late 19th/early 20th century
One of the group of Tibetan rugs known for their “checkerboard” design, this one has a wonderful tomato red and light gold color combination that is quite special. There is a slight bit of wear in parts of the rug. Circa 1900.
Birds in Flight
A “Gabbeh” or “Jiroft” type of rug woven in the mid 20th century
Exceptional Persian kilim made with all natural dyes and the finest wool
Exceptional Persian kilim made with all natural dyes and the finest wool
The design on this rug is based on the ancient written languages commonly referred to as “Mikhi”
Made in Nepal, this rug is available in custom sizes
Often mistaken for village rugs of Northwest Persia or the Caucasus, Kurdish rugs and carpets have only recently come to be appreciated for their distinctive and exceptionally beautiful use of color and design. This being said, this is a wonderful example of a Persian tribal rug where nomadic artisans picked up design ideas from other…
A very unique carpet, this is an early to mid 19th century version of a very famous 16th century Spanish Alcaraz carpet currently in the Textile Museum. A Phoenix rises from the ashes, surrounded by wreaths. The scull & bones motifs in the original have been replaced here by statue heads (Socrates??). The latin inscriptions (in…
One of a Pair
A wonderful Kurdish rug from the Khorassan region in excellent condition. 19th century
A wonderfully sophisticated design by Taftanchian, known for re-interpreting classic 16th century designs in the 19th century
3756 Oushak Gallery Rug 6ft 4 in x 16ft 4 in The town of Oushak, roughly one hundred miles south of present day Istanbul, Turkey, produced some of the most commercial rugs of all times. Their distinctive designs appear as early as the fifteenth century in the paintings of Lorenzo Lotto; they are mentioned as…
The central field of this massive carpet is a traditional infinite repeat of the Herati design common in rugs from this region, but with the added charm of small birds interspersed throughout. The cream spandrels on both ends of the carpet with their claw shaped hooks make a striking frame. The main portion of the…
A design of large cartouche medallions outlined by feathers which one normally associates with Kerman carpets. The color combination utilized– the rich madder, deep indigo and fiery yellow show that is indeed an example of Sultanabad weavers using their skill to impart their genius into a borrowed design.
Oushak Rug circa 1850. A complex floral ground has just enough wear to make it interesting and textural
Modeled after the so called “Salting Rugs” in the Topkapi Museum (Istanbul)
Bakhtiari rug signed and dated 1886
Audience Carpet Senneh was for two centuries the capital of Kurdistan, and was thus settled by Persian officials who ordered fine quality rugs for their homes. Although knotted by Kurdish tribesman rather than urban-dwelling salaried artisans, Senneh is well known for producing very high quality small rugs. What sets apart this example is that the…
Circa 1900 An extremely subtle Turkish rug in both design and color, owing to sophisticated tastes in the European export market of the time. Interestingly, this is of a design seen very seldom in the original Oushak carpets, but seen quite often in the Donegal (Ireland) copies of the 1920’s and 30’s. The red colored…
Also Available in 6 x 9
19th century Oushak rug with very pale colors, background color is more pale than the photo represents.
On the fringe of the central desert in Persia, Kashan has a well-deserved reputation for producing extremely fine quality traditional rugs. During Safavid times Kashan developed a reputation as one of the finest weaving centers of the world. The city is located at the very heart of the central Persian carpet-making region and has given…
Cotton Dhurrie from India circa 1930’s
Chinese Rug
This extraordinary carpet with its unusual design is one of only two room sized Melas carpets we have encountered in 50+ years. Melas is an area usually known for small prayer rugs with very sophisticated color combinations. Here a grand stepped and indented medallion with finials hovers amidst an open terracotta field otherwise occupied only by…