拍品 92
  • 92

A SHAKHRISABZ SUSANI, UZBEKISTAN |

估價
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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描述

  • approximately 270 by 198cm; 8ft. 10in., 6ft. 6in.
  • 19th century

Condition

Vertical orientation with coffee pots in centre of roundel on left side - Overall measurements: 198cm across the top, 198cm across the bottom, 270cm the left hand side, 268cm the right hand side. Overall in very good condition. Lined with Velcro along upper edge. Some localised losses to circular border medallion, (right hand side) and the adjacent guards as visble from the photograph. Very unusual motifs including the ring of coffee pots in the middle left hand border medallion (orientation as illustrated) and the lower right hand border medallion and a very clearly articulated 'ruyi' cloud colers of the centres of the various medallions. Very well drawn with very good space and colour.
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拍品資料及來源

There is a beautiful example which compares to the present lot in the M. H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, inv.no. L84.166.8. Another in the Marshall collection, see Grube (2003) pl. 15 and also a another similar example cited in the same publication which is dated 1146 AH / 1734 AD,p. 6, fig. 19. There is also a comprehensive list of recorded examples in institutions within the Grube publication. See lot 40 for further discussion of susani. "The incentive for this desirable group of susanis was set  when H. McCoy Jones acquired four pieces for the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Despite all flowery descriptions I am inclined to say that the position of the red roundels should be based on the Belt stars in the Orion constellation and refers to the heavenly scale. For this reason one would call in a kalamkar specialist to draw out the design on the background." (EH)

Grube (2003): Grube, E., Keshte Central Asian Embroideries The Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf Collection, New York, 2003, pl. 15