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AZERBAIJAN TEXTILES

 


Early Azerbaijan silk embroidery, 17-18th century, Victoria and Albert Museum

Early Azerbaijan silk embroidery, 17th century, Private Collection

18th century Caucasian Embroidery, lot 45, sold for €28,800 at Rippon Boswell Spring 2003 sale

18th century Azerbaijan silk embroidery, private collection. Published in Hali vol 2, no 4, 1980

An 18th century (Khanate Period) Azerbaijan silk embroidery. Sotheby's Sale: N08258, New York, 14 Dec 2006

18th-century Azerbaijani silk and metal thread embroidery, South Caucasus/NW Persia. Sotheby’s N08258, New York, 14 Dec 2006.



Azerbaijan Silk Embroidery, 18th c. (Safavid/Khanate Period), possibly Eastern Azerbaijan.
Sotheby’s Sale N08258, New York, 14 Dec 2006

Azerbaijan silk embroidery, 18th century, Private Collection

Azerbaijan Silk Embroidery Fragment, early 18th c., Sotheby’s Sale N07919, Lot 30 of 108, New York, 19 Sep 2003

Early Karabagh embroidery, Khanate Period, Azerbaijan. Musée des Tissus et des Arts Décoratifs in Lyon, France. published in Tokatlian, Soies de Paradis. Tapis et Textiles d'Orient du Musée des Tissus de Lyon, Paris, 2008)Early Karabagh embroidery, Khanate Period, Azerbaijan. Musée des Tissus et des Arts Décoratifs in Lyon, France. published in Tokatlian, Soies de Paradis. Tapis et Textiles d'Orient du Musée des Tissus de Lyon, Paris, 2008)

S
ilk embroidery, 18th century, Victoria & Albert Museum
, 296-1884

Embroidered Cover, Azerbaijan, 1740–1790. Victoria and Albert Museum, T.41-1940

"Cartouches and Stars" design, Azerbaijan, South Caucasus, early 18th c. Incomplete silk embroidery in counted stitch on cotton, private collection

Azerbaijan Cover, embroidered, 1700s, Azerbaijan, Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum no. 977-1907

Silk Embroidery, 18th century, Azerbaijan
, private collection

Caucasian Embroidery, silk on linen, 18th century, private collection

A SILK EMBROIDERED AZERBAIJAN RUG, 18TH CENTURY, KUBA OR KARABAGH
Price Realized £22,500 ($34,830)
Christie's Sale 7845
Oriental Rugs and Carpets
15 April 2010, London

A SILK EMBROIDERED AZERBAIJAN RUG, 18TH CENTURY
Price Realized £21,250 ($33,809)
Sale 7872, Christie's Oriental Rugs & Carpets
7 October 2010, London

A CAUCASIAN SILK EMBROIDERED PRAYER RUG
LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY, AZERBAIJAN
Price Realized £13,700 ($28,044)
Christie's Sale 7429
Oriental Rugs and Carpets
25 October 2007
London


Early Azerbaijan silk embroidery with swastika motives, Khanate Period, 18th century, Private Collection

Early Karabagh Cushion cover, 18th century, Khanate Period. The Textile Museum 2.6. Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1915

Early Karabagh Embroidery with stylized pattern. Linen, Cross Stitch Silk, 18th century or earlier, Azerbaijan. David Sorgato, Italy

Early Azerbaijan embroidery, XVIII century. published in 'Caucasian Rugs' by Ulrich Schurmann

Karabagh embroidery, XVIII c, Khanate Period, Azerbaijan. Location: The Treasures Of Mother See Of Holy Etchmiadzin

Early Azerbaijan silk embroidery, 17th century, possibly Karabagh. Private Collection

Early Karabagh silk embroidery rug, XVIII century, Khanate Period, Azerbaijan. published in Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Carpets and Textiles from New York Collectors 2008 by Jon Thompson, Thomas J. Farnham, Daniel Shaffer

Silk embroidery rug, Azerbaijan, 1700s. Textile Museum. Cross stitch on cotton, 1.49 x 1.80 m (4′ 11″ x 5′ 11″). Textile Museum, Washington DC, inv. no. 2.19, acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1952

Victoria and Albert Museum early Azerbaijan textile, 18th century, Khanate Period, inv. no. 172.19.06, 81 x 127 cm

Early Karabagh silk embroidery, "Medallion and Sickle-Leaves", 17th cenury, 69 x 118 cm (2ft 3in x 3ft 10.5), Karabagh Khanate Period, Azerbaijan

Karabagh silk embroidery, XVIII century, Khanate Period, Azerbaijan. Textile Museum, inv. no: 2.9. Silk embroidery, regular surface darning on cotton, 121 x 158 cm. Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1926

Azerbaijan silk embroidery, 18th century, Textile Museum
, 2.18

Karabagh embroidery with swastika motifs, Khanate Period, Azerbaijan. Lefevre 25 November 1983
 

Early Karabagh embroidery rug, XVIII century, Khanate Period, Azerbaijan. Lefevre Auction, 1977, Lot 52

Early Karabagh silk embroidery with a proto-Kasimushak design, 18th century, Azerbaijan. Private Collection

18th century Azerbaijan embroidery, possibly Karabagh, private collection

Early Azerbaijan textile, 18th century or earlier, possibly Karabagh. Bruce and Olive Baganz

Karabagh region (?), Azerbaijan, circa 1700
60 x 87 cm (24 x 34 in), incomplete, silk embroidery in counted stitch on cotton

Early Karabagh silk embroidery, 17th century, Safavid Period, Karabagh Province (Beylerbeyi), Azerbaijan. Private Collection

Early Karabagh silk embroidery, 17-18th cenury, Safavid or Early Khanate Period, Karabagh, 62 x 95 cm. Private Collection

Victoria and Albert Museum early Azerbaijan silk textile, 18th century, Khanate Period, inv. no. 70.1909

18th century Azerbaijan embroidery

Early Caucasian textile, late 18th-early 19th century, Azerbaijan

Early Caucasian textile fragment, 18th century
 
Cover, silk embroidery on cotton
Azerbaijan, Caucasus; 1st half of 18th century

Early Azerbaijan textile, 18th century, 50 x 50 cm

Azerbaijan embroidery, c 1700, Late Safavid or Khanate Period. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 295-1884
   
 


   

 

 

 

 


Azerbaijan embroidery with lotus palmette motifs, XVIII century, Khanate Period. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 126-1901

Silk Embroidery, Azerbaijan, ca. 1800 – Stylized Calyxes and Palmette Motif. Private Collection

Azerbaijan embroidery, XVIII century, Khanate Period. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 79.1.25

Cover Embroidery, XVIII century, Caucasian Azerbaijan. Silk on cotton. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.32.105

Azerbaijan silk embroidery, probably Tabriz, 18th century, formerly in the Orient Star Collection

Azerbaijan silk embroidery, XVIII century, Late Safavid or Khanate Period. Private collection (Thomas Caruso)

Embroidered cover, late 18th century, Caucasian Azerbaijan. Silk on cotton, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49.32.104