An Azerbaijan Silk Embroidery, South Caucasus, Second Half 17th Century
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
An Azerbaijan Silk Embroidery, South Caucasus, Second Half 17th Century
worked in surface darning on a natural cotton ground, mounted on a stretcher
approximately 3ft. 3in. by 2ft. 2in.
99 by 66 cm
The Textile Gallery, London;
Eugene Chesrow, Chicago;
Sotheby’s, New York, 31 January 2014, lot 2;
Where acquired by the present collector.
HALI, vol. 3, no. 1, 1980, reproduced p. 75.
The archaic drawing and spacing of this embroidery does not appear to have any direct counterpart in current literature; however, these characteristics, as well as its yellow border, are shared with those Azerbaijan embroideries accepted as being of earliest manufacture and dating to the 17th century, see Eberhart Herrmann, Asiatische Teppich-und Textilkunst, band 4, Munich, 1992, pl. 19, pp. 48-49; Heinrich Kirchheim, et al., Orient Stars, Stuttgart and London, 1993, pls. 45, 50 and 51; and Michael Franses, Textile Art of the Caucasus, London, 1996, pl. 3. This rustic quality is also found on the embroidery sold at Sotheby’s New York, December 5, 1987, lot 118.
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