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A SMALL SILK AND METAL-THREAD KOUM KAPI RUG
ISTANBUL, WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1920
Of 'Shah Abbas' design, in overall excellent condition
3ft.3in. x 2ft.5in. (99cm. x 73cm.)
£10,000-15,000 US$12,000-18,000
€12,000-17,000
The knot count is approximately 10V x 10H per cm. sq.

The design of counterposed palmettes on the present rug is
taken almost directly from Isfahan carpets of the 16th century
during the reign of Shah Abbas in Persia from whose name it
is coined, of which examples would most certainly have been
found in the Topkapi Palace. A rug of similarly small proportions,
displaying an overall 'Shah Abbas' design by Zareh Penyamin,
sold in these Rooms, 7 October 2014, lot 110.

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A HEREKE PRAYER RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, DATED AH 1310/1892-3 AD
Woven on bi-coloured silk warps, in overall good condition
5ft.2in. x 3ft.8in. (159cm. x 115cm.)
£5,000-7,000 US$5,800-8,000
€5,800-8,100
The inscription cartouche reads; hereke sene (year) 1310

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A SILK KOUM KAPI RUG The field design of this carpet is closely related to a group of early 17th-
ISTANBUL, TURKEY, CIRCA 1920 century Kirman 'vase' carpets, one of which was formerly in the Berlin
Overall excellent condition Staatliche Museum and sadly thought to have been destroyed during World
7ft.4in. x 4ft.11in. (224cm. x 149cm.) War II, illustrated in Friedrich Sarre and Hermann Trenkwald, Old Oriental
Carpets, Leipzig, 1926, vol.II, pl.6 and the other still extant carpet is the
£22,000-26,000 US$26,000-30,000
Baltimore Museum 'Vase' carpet (see May H. Beattie, Carpets of Central
€26,000-30,000
Persia, exhibition catalogue, Sheffield and Birmingham, 1976, no 51, p.77).
The knot count measures approximately 10V x 11H knots per cm. sq. Although the present rug is unsigned it is closely related, both in design
and finesse, to a silk and metal-thread Koum Kapi rug signed by the master
240 weaver Hagop Kapoudjian, that sold in these Rooms, 23 April 2013, lot 23.
254 In addition to the hammer price, a Buyer’s Premium (plus VAT) is payable. Other taxes and/or an Artist Resale Royalty 255
fee are also payable if the lot has a tax or λ symbol. Check Section D of the Conditions of Sale at the back of this catalogue.