Antique Persian Carpets

Islamic Art: "Islamic and Asian Art

Saray Berke Strapwork Bowl 14th Century
2 Dome of the Rock Tiles Circa 1550 lot 47
Jahangir's wild ass (gur-khar) circa 1620

Saray Berke Strapwork Bowl 14th Century

Yuan Dynasty White Porcelain Vase

Mughal Red Ground Grotesque fragments

Flowers Underfoot: Metropolitan’s Mughal Exhibition

The Emperor Qianlong's Hindustan (Mughal) Jade Drinking Vessel

Tang Dynasty Central Asian Turk Statues

Mughal Millefleurs Carpet Fragment 18th century

Mughal Hanging late late 17th/early 18th century

Hamzanama The Master Spy Escapes Circa 1570

Akhbar i-Barmakyan Gifts at the Gate, India, Mughal, Circa 1595-1600

Bukhara

A Pair of Two Lovers, Bukhara Circa 1530-1550

Mu'in Musavvir's Youth Playing a Flute"

Guide to Heriz Rugs & Carpets by Barry O'Connell, Spongobongo.com: "In the 18th - 20th centuries there have been a constant series of upheavels between Russia and her Moslem neighbors to the south. Every time Russia and Turkey fought Moslems moved south and Armenians moved north. Many of the weavers from the Heriz area are a result of imagration from what is now Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The great German rug expert Heinrich Jacoby described a diference in size pre-1880 and post-1880. In the pre-1880 period Jacoby suggests that the most common size was 6 feet 6 inches by 13 feet. This length equals twice width seems typical in that period before the massive commercial export period. Long and narrow was in keeping with the needs of the Persian buyer. After 1880 production shifted to European sizes. Starting with 6 meter rugs (6 feet 7 inches by 9 foot 10 inches) they were made in sizes typically up to 16 foot 6 inch by 26 feet. Jacoby, Heinrich. How To Know Oriental Rugs and Carpets"

The Persian Carpet -Arts of Asia - Eskenazi to Close gallery

Arts of Asia - Eskenazi to Close gallery Arts of Asia: "JE: Ive done this job for twenty-seven years, ten years in London. I think it has to do with a mid-life change, rather than a mid-life crisis. I dont want to postpone things until I'm dead. My goal is to work by appointment, initially from my home in London. In the end I am trying to concentrate on the very best, selling just a few pieces a year, to focus on my health, family, research and publishing books. I am one of the founders of The Art Newspaper. I'm doing three or four books now.

About 85 per cent of my clients are in America. That is why I do the Armory Fair. Possibly I will do an exhibition in the Fall in a New York gallery. If you sit in your own gallery, the great pieces wont come to you. I am not closing because of the new law. If you talk to my friends, you will know I have been thinking about this for some years." � 1:21 PM

Dr. Saeedi at the 2nd Kish Carpet Festival: "Dr. Saedi was one of the organizers of the 2nd Kish Carpet Festival. he is also editor and publisher of Teppiche Welt (Carpet World). American educated Dr. Saedi was a big help to me at the festival. I think I have better pictures of him and as soon as I find them I will post them. Carpet World is an important magazine with articles on Persian Carpets in German English, and Farsi.
Dr. Saedi was one of the organizers of the 2nd Kish Carpet Festival. he is also editor and publisher of Carpet World. With his fluent English American educated Dr. Saedi was a big help to me at the festival. "

La Miniature En Orient Plate 46: Bears: "The date that Kuhnel assigned to this piece seems to be at least 50 years too early. In this we see a style of art that developed in the 15th century and came into it's own in the sixteenth century. Comparing how the bear is drawn and the representation of leaves and floral forms I feel an attribution of Khorasan (Mashad or Sabzavar) 3rd quarter 16th century is most probable. In the picture to the left we can see proportion of the trunk and how the two main branches cross back across each other. This is a style we see in other pictures including the margin decorations of Portrait of a Seated Flautist. "

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"Iran strongly condemned the killing of Ezzedine Salim, head of the interim Iraqi Governing Council in Baghdad, blaming the United States for failing to guarantee security.

'The US has failed to establish security in Iraq and the incendiary presence of the occupiers has led to insecurity and bloodshed in that country,' Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said.

He added: 'The occupiers' immediate pullout from Iraq and the hand-over of sovereignty to the Iraqis would pave the way for creation of a popular rule and a secure climate.'

Iran's embassy in Baghdad also condemned the killing, calling it a 'terrorist act.'"

Yahoo! News - Rumsfeld Backs Iraq Interrogation Methods:

"- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld defended military interrogation techniques in Iraq on Wednesday, rejecting complaints that they violate international rules and may endanger Americans taken prisoner.

Rumsfeld told a Senate committee that Pentagon lawyers had approved methods such as sleep deprivation and dietary changes as well as rules permitting prisoners to be made to assume stress positions. "