An Early 20thC Silk Thread Koum Kapi Rug c.1920

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An Early 20thC Silk Thread Koum Kapi Rug c.1920Origin: Turkish Period: Early 20thC Provenance: The George Farrow Collection Date: c. 1920 Length: 36 Width: 26 The beautiful fragment in silk threads, with a soft palette with madder reds, blacks, oranges and aubergines to a sand ground, the whole with a stylised floral design and surviving from the first quarter of twentieth century Turkey. For a rug that is over a century old the piece remains in fine fettle, with a nice amount of consistent

The coffin has come directly out of the fun and rather wacky interior of The Montague Arms public house in London

the whole without a base and surviving from the zeniths of the Victorian period

facial features

Box Width: 5 inches

over gesso and composition bases

the earliest that such relief moulded jugs are known to have been made

We have found a similar model

Depth: 29” (all at extremities)

The pressed metal gilded frames are original but not of the highest order

producing highly expressive forms

There is no mechanism for the clock to operate but it wouldn’t be too difficult to implement one if so desired

Bohor Reedbuck