Auction 73 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Qashqai-style Marbadiah Rug – Jerusalem, 1920s
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Large Qashqai-style rug, made at the Marbadiah/Bezalel workshop. [Jerusalem, 1920s].
Wool knot-pile; cotton foundation.
The central panel features three rhomboid medallions within a triple rhomboid field, depicting star-shaped roundels, flowers, foliage and animals. Triple border, the central of which shows a Star of David pattern.
This rug's design and iconography (except the Stars of David) follows the rug-making tradition of the Turkish-Iranian Qashqai tribe.
315X164 cm. Good condition. Fading. Edges partly restored and somewhat unraveling. Cropped fringes.
Provenance: The Anton Felton Collection.
Literature: Jewish Carpets, by Anton Felton. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1997, p. 117.
Wool knot-pile; cotton foundation.
The central panel features three rhomboid medallions within a triple rhomboid field, depicting star-shaped roundels, flowers, foliage and animals. Triple border, the central of which shows a Star of David pattern.
This rug's design and iconography (except the Stars of David) follows the rug-making tradition of the Turkish-Iranian Qashqai tribe.
315X164 cm. Good condition. Fading. Edges partly restored and somewhat unraveling. Cropped fringes.
Provenance: The Anton Felton Collection.
Literature: Jewish Carpets, by Anton Felton. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1997, p. 117.
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