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CARPET. Antique Bidjar. 578 x 355 cm, plus one end has 3 cm red flatweave, one has 1,5 cm.

Estimate
60 000 - 80 000 SEK
5 310 - 7 070 EUR
5 430 - 7 240 USD
Hammer price
60 000 SEK
Purchasing info
CARPET. Antique Bidjar. 578 x 355 cm, plus one end has 3 cm red flatweave, one has 1,5 cm.

A dark blue ground with polychrome Europeanizated flower bouquets and acanthus festoons. A wide green melange main border with large stylized palmettes and cloud bands as well as a leaf vine.

Some partly a little harder wear, dirty, minor stains, fold wear among which a few have minor tears. One end has later fringes, one has a sewn on ribbon.

Provenance

Bought at Myrstedt & Sterns Aktiebolag, Stockholm, in 1911. Documentations come with the lot.

Literature

Compare with an ivory coloured Bidjar Sterner, Maj och Kinch, Jacob: Antik Orientaliska Mattor i Sverige, Stockholm 1937, colour plate V.