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Wide Kilim Hall Rug

‘Ardabil’

North East Iran

Wide Kilim Hall Rug

First half 20th Century

In good sound condition

4.8m x 1.36m

Looking great in my showroom.

$4,500

Veramin kilim – CIP700

Veramin Kilim. A flat woven or kilim rug from the Veramin region south east of Tehran. The rug features dramatic ‘gul’ like designs across it’s field.

First half 20th Century

3.40 x 1.70m

$5,500

A 19th Century domestic chair of the Swat Valley, Western Pakistan

Stock AA0501

A 19th Century domestic chair of the Swat Valley, Western Pakistan

Built to be flexible to weather the rugged terrain and to elevate people from the wet and rocky ground. The seat is leather thonging from domestic animals and the wood turned from a foot powered lathe, traditional carving from that region. Having the original leather seat and good overall colour and patination with a floating cushion covered by a 19th Century Kilim.

19th Century.

A rare suite of early 19th Century Regency period watercolours of Indian birds – AA1830

Nineteen exquisite ornithological subjects, painted by a visitor to the sub-continent in the 1820’s. The representations are anatomically correct and accurate in scale, yet all of these finely executed watercolours – by an unknown but clearly gifted artist – manage to display strong individual character, painstakingly cut as silhouettes and laid down on eleven contemporary folio album pages (510 x 290 mm each) in the style of decoupage, all but three of the specimens with an accompanying contemporary manuscript label cut and pasted onto the page beside it, all the illustrations in an excellent state of preservation, the colours still vibrant, the paper stable, some residual tape marks to corners and margins of the sheets which do not detract, one of the captions identifying a location (Bellary, in Karnataka, southwest India) and a date (January 1828).

The manuscript labels read as follows:

Black-headed Oriole Mango bird. Lark. Alanda sp. The birds appear in October in immense flocks and depart in March – often mistaken for Ortolans.Plover. Water Wagtail. Eagle. Shot at Bellany Jan 1828. Breadth from Wing to Wing 6 feet. Half size. Falco Sp. Chysactos. Spur Foul: Tetrao sp. Partridge. Short tail Tern. Water Wagtail. Bansputtah or Bamboo Frequenter. Common Florican. Stone Chat. Malacilla Rubicola. Three-toed Quail (male and female). Golden Oriole. Female. Golden Oriole. Male. Grey Shrike. Female. Lanius Sinerius.

Framed by Vicki Hutchins.