Shahsavan Khorjin
Mid 19th century, A = 50 x 51 B = 49 x 49 cm, South East Caucasus, Moghan-Savalan region
Two faces of a Moghan Shahsavan double bag, finely woven in the sumakh technique. Offset rows of white, red, dark green and light green box motifs lie on the midnight blue ground, each decorated with four double hooks pointing in the four cardinal directions which give the devices a cruciform appearance. The narrow white border contains a geometric stylised vine. Most of the published examples of this rare group are bag halves. A complete khorjin was sold by us at Auction A 92. – Good condition; the upper closure bands are also woven in the sumakh technique.
WERTIME, JOHN T., Sumak Bags of Northwest Persia & Transcaucasia. London 1998, Nr.63 *** GÜGEL, ERNST & WÜHR, RUDOLF, Zweck und Zier. Antike Taschen aus dem Kaukasus und Nordwest-Persien. Traunstein 2010, Abb. S.54 *** RIPPON BOSWELL, A 40, 14.05.1994, #98; A 92, 25.11.2017, #49; A 94, 17.11.2018, #240
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Mid 19th century, A = 50 x 51 B = 49 x 49 cm, South East Caucasus, Moghan-Savalan region
Two faces of a Moghan Shahsavan double bag, finely woven in the sumakh technique. Offset rows of white, red, dark green and light green box motifs lie on the midnight blue ground, each decorated with four double hooks pointing in the four cardinal directions which give the devices a cruciform appearance. The narrow white border contains a geometric stylised vine. Most of the published examples of this rare group are bag halves. A complete khorjin was sold by us at Auction A 92. – Good condition; the upper closure bands are also woven in the sumakh technique.
WERTIME, JOHN T., Sumak Bags of Northwest Persia & Transcaucasia. London 1998, Nr.63 *** GÜGEL, ERNST & WÜHR, RUDOLF, Zweck und Zier. Antike Taschen aus dem Kaukasus und Nordwest-Persien. Traunstein 2010, Abb. S.54 *** RIPPON BOSWELL, A 40, 14.05.1994, #98; A 92, 25.11.2017, #49; A 94, 17.11.2018, #240
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