A `BIRD` CARPET

Lot 199
27.04.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 39 060
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Lot 199 | A 'BIRD' CARPET
Valeur estimée
£ 20 000 – 30 000
A 'BIRD' CARPET

PROBABLY SELENDI, WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 16TH / EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Scattered restoration and repiling, uneven areas of wear, reduced in length

11ft.7in. x 7ft.3in. (352cm. x 221cm.)





Provenance

The Christopher Alexander Collection, Christie's London, 15 October 1998, lot 204



Literature

HALI, Issue 56, April 1991, p.119, as part of the 1990 display of the Alexander Collection in the M H de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco.

Christopher Alexander, A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art, the Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets, New York and Oxford, 1993, pp.206 (b/w detail), 268-270 and 349.



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