Inventory Number: 4209

Raffia textile
Origin: Kuba people. Zaire..
Size: app. 13"X18"
Age: 3d quarter 20th century

Pile decoration on plain woven raffia.Complex geometric motifs represent physical phenomona in their surroundings.

Condition: Very good. 
Price: $150.

Inventory Number: 4230

Raffia cloth 
Origin: Kuba people Zaire.
Size: app.17"X18"
Age: 3d quarter 20th century

Raffia cut pile embroidery

A variety of  motifs, also used in house painting and ceramics, make a striking sampler. These are made in various sizes and shapes for ceremonial and everday use.

Condition: Very good. 
Price: $150.

Inventory Number: 4163

Bark cloth
Origin: Mbuti people. Ituri Forest. Northern Zaire.
Size: 27"X22"
Age: Unknown. Collected 3d quarter, 20th c.
Tree bark. Wooden frame.
Made by pounding bark, then drawn with natural pigments.

Made by Mbuti pygmy women, perhaps the original abstract artists, this has a feeling of syncopated rhythm as in a musical composition. Not many of these Mbuti cloths have been shown in the United States.

Price: $450.

Inventory # 3956
TAPA CLOTH

Origin: POLYNESIA.

Size: 6'4x6'8" DATE: Unknown. Fairly recent.?

Beaten from inner bark of a moraceae tree (mulberry, breadfruit,e.g.)

Painted with indigenous dye materials

Price: $300.

Inventory Number: 627

THANKA. (tonka)

Origin: TIBET. Size: 20"X38" 18th century

Block printed. Silk brocade surround
Price: $375.

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Inventory Number: 2701

Batik painting on raw silk (?)
Origin: Bali, Indonesia
Size: 17"X18"'
Age: 1970s..
Materials: Cotton .
Contemporary painting in a style called "Tulus".
Artist, Warsito(?)

Price: $120.

Inventory Number: 4169

Lap Robe
Origin: uncertain. America(?) 
Size: 3'X5'

Age: uncertain. 20th c.
Materials: Wool.

If you have a horse-drawn carriage, this Lap Rpbe could perform its original function. It WOULD make a cozy throw at the foot of a bed or on a couch..
Condition: very good
Price: $120.

Inventory Number: 4088

Kilim collage
Origin: Turkish kilim fragments
Size: 2'3"X 2'7"
Age: Made in 1990 from 19th c. fragments
Wool kilim fragments pieced together and sewn on canvas. Wooden dowl.

Made by artist Gary Llamido for an exhibit of "Kilims Reformed".
Condition: Very good.
Price: $400.

Inventory Number: 4090

Kilim collage 26" x 36"

Fragments of antique anatolian kilims mounted on canvas / solid wood dowel. Made by artist Gary Llamydo for exhibit "Kilim Reformed" Elaine Benson Gallery, East Hampton

Price $300

Inventory Number: 4094

Hard wood lidded box by a Carolina artisan contains 11 antique rug and kilim fragments (all mounted on canvas with bamboo dowels). Fragment on cover is from an antique Turkish kilim. Detailed list on inside of cover .

Price $400

Inventory Number: 3668

Antique block-printed cover (kalamkar)
Origin: Iran
Size:45"X49"
Age: c. 1890
Cotton Outlined by hand, then printed with carved wooden blocks

In each corner or this charming textile is a "boteh", the paisley pear motif celebrated in Persia and India and in vogue in Europe and America at the turn of the 19th-20th century.
Condition: very good
Price $150

Inventory Number: 3669

Inscribed prayer cloth (Kalankar)

Cotton Block Printed c. 1890

Persia (Iran)

Price $300

Inventory Number: 3665

Rasht. Embroidered cloth

Chain-stitched medallion and boteh design

Fine wool c. 1870

Persia (Iran)

Price: $300.

Inventory Number: 3667

Antique block-print (Kalamkar)
Origin: Persia
Size:34"X50"
Age: c. 1890
Cotton Block-printed. Outlined by hand.
Lined in cotton in the same technique with a different design.

This is an authentic late 19th c. Persian domestic textile; the popular boteh design had spread across Europe and versions made in England and Scotland became known as "paisley" after the weaving town in Scotland of that name. Will make a lovely hanging or table cover.

Price: $250.

Inventory Number: 3441

Quilt 
Origin: Iran
Size: 3'7"X3'9"
Age: uncertain. early 20th c.(?)
Materials: Cotton.
Condition: Excellent.
Pieced cotton front is appliqued. Printed cotton back.

Both the front and the back have a "boteh" motif. This charming textile could have been made as a crib quilt.

Price: $250.

Inventory Number: 2419

Ecclesiastic Vestment
Origin: Italy
Size: 4'10"X10'
Age: 18th c.
Materials: Silk, silk thread,silk fringe
Brocade and Applique.

A very elegantly drawn Cope.
Further research will be done for client. 
Condition: Good. Some sections are stabilized with gauze.
Price: $950.

Inventory Number: 2424

Ecclesiastic Vestment. COPE
4'10"X”10'
Age: 17th/18th c. (?)
Origin: Spain (?)
Condition: Very good.
Silk, silk and gold thread, gold brocade, gold gauze
PRICE: $950.

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Inventory Number: 2191

Ecclesiastic Vestment (Chasuble) Back only

Origin: France. 17th-18th c. Silk damask.. Gilt lace trim. Mounted on cotton canvas.

Size; 24"X38"Condition:Some of the silk ground is frayed. Embroidred areas fine. Gilt trim fine.

Price: $350.

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PRICE: $350.

Inventory Number: 4153

ORIENTALIST TAPESTRY
1’6”x1’7”
Made in Belgium
Mercerized cotton
Mid 20th c.
Good condition
A picturesque scene of men in the opulent courtyard of a Middle
Eastern town. The man on the donkey and the standing man are in exotic dress, perhaps Uzbeks from Central Asia.
Price: $30.

Inventory Number: 4154

ORIENTALIST TAPESTRY
DANCE IN THE MARKETPLACE
1’6”X4.5”
Made in Belgium
Mid 20th c.
Good condition
A voluptuous dancer (gypsy?) is watched by horsemen and camel riders.
Her tambourines lay on the corner of her rug. In the open market flowers, fruit and cakes are sold.
Price: $45

Inventory Number: 58

A Stand at the Champ de Mars Races (1848)
Origin: BookPlate. FASHION IN PARIS FROM 1797 TO 1897 By Octave Uzanne. Artist: Francois Courboin.
Size: 5'"X7" in a 12"X14" mat (backed)
Age: 1898

Condition: Excellent. 
Price: $50..

Inventory Number: 36

The Great Longchamps Day (1820) 
Origin: BOOKPLATE. FASHION IN PARIS FROM 1797 TO 1897 by Octave Uzanne. Artist: Francois Corboin.
Size: 5'"X7" in a 12"X14" mat (backed)
Age: 1--9th century

Condition: Excellent. 
Price: $50.

Inventory Number: 71

Racing at the Bois de Bolulogne (1862) 
Origin: BOOKPlate .FASHION IN PARIS FROM 1797 TO 1897 by Octave Uzanne. Artist: Francois Corboin.

Size: 5"X7" in a 12"X14" mat (backed)
Age: 1898

Condition: Excellent. 
Price: $50.