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Description: |
This weaving combines design elements traditional to many Shahsavan tribal groups with several imaginative and unusual secondary features.
The field consists of three horizontal panels, each with a rich, indigo ground.
The panels at the top and bottom display opposed bird or eagle-like motifs.
These motifs are classic and are seen here in an endless repeat format.
There are, however, two unusual elements in these panels.
First, the red has a distinctive coral-red tonality. This color is employed consistently throughout the piece.
Secondly, within each hexagon there are two very delicate, multi-colored diamond forms.
These motifs are unusual, rather time-consuming to produce, and suggest a certain importance to this weaving.
Continuing the endless repeat theme, the primary designs of the middle band consist of alternating complete and half cruciforms.
The complete cruciform shapes are in green and a mellow aubergine.
The three bands are framed by four ivory ground, secondary borders displaying the traditional connected flower bud motifs.
The visual significance of these borders is enhanced by the multi-colored lines accompanying these borders.
All the colors are from natural sources.
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Condition: |
Excellent. There is one small repair in the upper, left corner. The surface of the piece is in good condition with no wear or damage. |
Structure: |
2/1 plain, uncountered soumak. There are extremely limited areas where the structure is 2/1 countered soumak. Portions of the original weft-faced plain weave have survived at the top of the piece. |
Price: |
$1,800.00 |
Literature: |
Wertime, John, Sumak Bags of Northwest Persia and Transcaucasia, plates # 12, # 13 (cruciform motifs), and plate # 22 (eagle-like motif).
Tanavoli, Parvis, Shahsavan, figure 33(c), page 55 (Tanavoli calls the cruciform motifs ‘opposed flower and bud motifs’ with numerous variations)
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