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A SILK AND METAL-THREAD `POLONAISE` RUG

Lot 19
06.07.2023 12:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 200 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 992753
Lot 19 | A SILK AND METAL-THREAD 'POLONAISE' RUG
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
A SILK AND METAL-THREAD 'POLONAISE' RUG

PROBABLY ISFAHAN, CENTRAL PERSIA, SECOND QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

The shaped metal-thread ground symmetrically arranged with paired inverted saz leaves and confronting paired palmettes, linked by a thin leafy vine, the linked ice-blue and pale green spandrels of similar design, enclosed within a metal-thread border with meandering scrolling leaf and palmette vine between narrow flowerhead guard stripes

6ft.9in. x 4ft.9in. (206cm. x 145cm.)





Provenance

General Brayton Ives, sold American Art Galleries, New York, March 31, 1915, lot 380, purchased by Senator William A. Clark

Accessioned to the Corcoran Museum of Art, 1928

Important Carpets from the William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Sotheby's New York, 5 June 2013, lot 9, from where purchased.



Literature

Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Early Oriental Rugs, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1910, no.36, p.45

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Illustrated Handbook of The W. A. Clark Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: W. F. Roberts Company, 1928, p.77

"Carpets for the Great Shah: The Near-Eastern Carpets from the W. A. Clark Collection," The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin, Washington, D.C., Vol. 2, No. 1, October 1948, p.23

F. Spuhler, Siedene Reprasentationsteppiche der mittleren bis spaten Safawwidenzeit – Die sog. Polenteppiche, dissertation, Berlin, 1968 (unpublished), p.80, p.200



Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Early Oriental Rugs, 1 November 1910 - 15 January 1911, no. 36

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Carpets for the Great Shah, October 3 - November 16, 1948

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Masterpieces: European Arts from the Collection, August 25, 2007-April 15, 2008



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This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice. The USA prohibits the purchase by US persons of Iranian-origin “works of conventional craftsmanship” such as carpets, textiles, decorative objects, and scientific instruments. The US sanctions apply to US persons regardless of the location of the transaction or the shipping intentions of the US person. For this reason, Christie’s will not accept bids by US persons on this lot. Non-US persons wishing to import this lot into the USA are advised that they will need to apply for an OFAC licence and that this can take many months to be granted.

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Medium:Metal thread, Silk, Textile
Art style:Safavid (1506-1722)
Place of origin:Asia, Persia
Auction house category:Carpets, Rugs & carpets
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