Lot 127
  • 127

A Kashan Silk Pictorial Rug, Central Persia 1936

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • 84.6 by 51 in.
  • 215 by 130 cm.
depicting Moses, standing barefoot on mountain tops, holding the Ten Commandments and titled in the Hebrew  "The Master of all Prophets, father to the wise, Moses our teacher", the borders with menorahs and foliage interspersed with cartouches, the upper central one inscribed "The Lord is thy Keeper" (Psalms 121:4), and the five further cartouches enclosing lines from Deuteronomy 10:12 "And now, Israel, what does the lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul", dated below September/October 1936

Exhibited

Atlanta, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum

Literature

Anton Felton, Jewish Carpets, Suffolk, 1997, no. 3, p. 36 (Illustrated)