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Click here to subscribeAn interesting and rare Tekke Turkmen style nine gul torba-like panel, north India, late 19th century, 1ft.10in. x 3ft.9in. 0.56m. x 1.14m. This is only the second example of the type we have seen, the other being a six gul torba sold in these rooms 7 July, 2005, lot 946, although we know of accurate Indian versions of Saryk ensis. The accuracy of the individual elements of the design is remarkable but the palette and structure is distinctly Indian. Given that such pieces, like most Indian rug weaving in the 19th and early 20th centuries, would have been made in jails, it seems reasonable to suppose that this finely made piece would have been woven by a Turkmen in a jail somewhere in the north west frontier area; several jails in that region were well-known for their rugs, including Dera Ismail Khan, Dera Ghazi Khan and Peshawar. However, one point worth bearing in mind is that in a tribal environment, weaving was carried out exclusively by women but there seems to be no record of women weavers in Indian jails where, apparently, it was an exclusively male activity. It is obvious from the finish that this panel never actually formed part of a bag.
Daghestan rug, north east Caucasus late 19th century, 3ft.6in. x 2ft.8in. 1.07m. x 0.81m. Slight even wear overall. Several tribal and village rugs are known and have been published where a well-known design has been attempted in a very cursory and crude manner but nevertheless with a decidedly naive charm allied with a good sense of colour. The usual explanation for such pieces is that they represent children's practice pieces; young girls learned to weave literally at their mothers' knees from a very early age, as in many traditional environments they still do, and such rugs as this are known to be the results of such initial attempts at an art form for which many such young tyros subsequently showed a remarkable aptitude.
An interesting group of tribal and village rugs, consisting of two Persian rugs - a Jaf Kurd rug, north west Persia late 19th century, 8ft.11in. x 4ft.2in. 2.72m. x 1.27m. and a Baluchi rug, Khorasan about 1900, 5ft. x 3ft. 1.52m. x 0.91m.; two Caucasian rugs Ð a Talish rug, south east Caucasus, late 19th century, 6ft. 4in. x 4ft.7in. 1.93m. x 1.40m. and a Chichi rug, Kuna region, north east Caucasus second half 19th century. 5ft. x 3ft.4in. 1.52m. x 1.02m.; and two Turkish rugs Ð a Makhri prayer rug, west Anatolia late 19th century, 5ft. x 3ft.9in. 1.52m. x 1.14m. and an Ushak prayer rug, west Anatolia early 20th century, 4ft.6in. x 3ft.7in. 1.37m. x 1.09m. All with varying degrees of wear, damage and/or re-weaves. Sold as a collection with all faults not subject to return. (6)
Kurdish (?) rug, north west Persia late 19th-early 20th century, 5ft.9in. x 3ft.2in. 1.75m. x 0.97m. Uneven wear. It is possible that this attractive tribal rug may have been made by one of the small Afshar groups in north west Persia. And a Jaf Kurd khorjin face, north west Persia second half 19th century, 1ft.6?in. x 2ft.9in. 0.47m. x 0.84m. Slight loss to lower edge, one or two very small holes. A good early Jaf Kurd face with exceptional wool.
A West African Sacrificial Axe, the hooked steel blade inlaid with a band of bronze chevrons, the bronze hilt with cast tribal head pommel, the grip cast with plaited bands and with a bone ferrule; a machete with leather scabbard; a dagger with leather sheath; an early 20th century British Military issue pith helmet; a fly whisk; and Doulton filter pump (6).
Kurdish long rug, north west Persia second half 19th century, 8ft.7in. x 5ft. 2.62m. x 1.52m. Two small worn kinks left side. The heavy symmetric knotting on an all wool foundation, with pale brownish red wefts, as well as the design and palette, all indicate a Kurdish origin in one of the three main west Persian tribal areas of eastern and northern Kurdistan, the Sanjabi, Jaf or Sauj Bulagh (running from central west to north west Persia). The rich vegetable palette consists of nine colours - red, reddish brown, purple-brown, very dark brown, mid blue, light blue, green, yellow and ivory.
Lori tablet woven shisha derma malband (blue and white animal girth band), Fars, south west Persia, late 19th-early 20th century, woven section 17ft.6in. x 3in. 5.34m, x 0.075m A good example of a type made by several tribal groups including the Qashqai and Lors. This example is probably by the Kohkiluieh Lors, one of the constituent tribes of the Lor Kuchik (Lesser Lors) of Fars, being slightly wider than the Qashqai examples; it also seems that, although the Qashqai included animals in the designs of their smaller horse and camel bands, they rarely did so in their long malband designs. Complete with shaped wood fastening block at one end and plaited tassel at the other.