A SILK AND METAL-THREAD KOUM KAPI RUG

Lot 178
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Lot 178 | A SILK AND METAL-THREAD KOUM KAPI RUG
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£ 40 000 – 60 000
A SILK AND METAL-THREAD KOUM KAPI RUG

ATTRIBUTABLE TO HAGOP KAPOUDJIAN, ISTANBUL, TURKEY, CIRCA 1895

Of 'Salting' design, full, thick pile throughout, woven horizontally, overall excellent condition, sold together with the invoice, dated 14 January 1916, and a letter of thanks from Julius Orendi, confirming that he had acquired it at the Exposition Universelle, Paris.

5ft.1in. x 8ft.2in. (157cm. x 248cm.)





Provenance

Teppichhaus Orendi, Vienna, 1900, from whom purchased by

Frau Toni Schwarz, 14 January 1916

Rippon Boswell, Frankfurt, 13 March 1982, lot 48

With Raymond Benardout, London, 1988

George Farrow, personal catalogue, 1991



Literature

Julius Orendi, Das Gesamtwissen über antike une neue Teppiche des Orients, Volume II, Vienna, 1930, p.157

George Farrow and Leonard Harrow, Hagop Kapoudjian: the First and Greatest Master of the Kum Kapi School, London, 1993, p.29, cat.no. MWI 4



Exhibited

Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900



Inscribed

The inscription cartouches in the border are inscribed with couplets from Sa'adi (d.1291-2)
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