Pillowry 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.

Pillowry 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

Pillowry 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 a charming use of the popular paisley design; a textile that would make a lovely hanging or table cover.

Price: $250.

Pillowry Inventory Number: 3441

Quilt 
Origin: uncertain. 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, often called a Paisley design. This charming textile could have been made as a crib quilt.

Price: $250.

Pillowry Inventory Number: 2813

IKAT YARDAGE
1’6”X16’
Age: 1980
Origin: Turfan, far Western China.
Condition: Unused.
Material: Silk thread.
This intricate technique has been woven in only a few areas of the world.
This black and white ikat with yellow selvages is made in Sinkiang province where
the Uighur women use it for their distinctive clothing. A very dramatic motif, found in paintings of robes from medieval times. The repeat is every 39”. .
Price: $60.

Pillowry Inventory Number: 3471

ORIENTALIST TAPESTRY – “ATTACK”
3’2”x3’6”
Age: 1930s?
Origin: Italy (?)
Condition: Some old stains.
Material: Warp is mercerized thread. Weft is hand spun cotton.
In an oasis in the desert two middle Eastern travelers (huntsmen?they have guns.)
are attacked. This scene might be based on a Persian legend. It would be a convers- ation piece as a hanging.
Price: $30.

Pillowry 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.

Pillowry 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

Pillowry Inventory Number: 3995

TAPESTRY - SON OF THE SHEIK
IS THIS RUDOLPH VALENTINO?
4’x4’
Made in Belgium
Late 1920s
Very good Condition
A regal young man is confronted by a young woman. The caption is FILS DU CHEIK. This tapestry seems to be taken from a movie poster from “Son of the Sheik” United Artists. 1926 in which Vilma Banky pleads with Rudolph Valentino. (See MPTV.netPhoto)
Price: $225.

Pillowry Inventory Number: 58

A Stand at the Champ de Mars Races (1848)
Origin: Fashion Plate. See Above.
Size: 5'"X7" in a 12"X14" mat (backed)
Age: 19th century

Condition: Excellent. 
Price: $50..

Pillowry Inventory Number: 36

The Great Longchamps Day (1820) 
Origin: Fashion Plate. See Above.
Size: 5'"X7" in a 12"X14" mat (backed)
Age: 19th century

Condition: Excellent. 
Price: $50.

Pillowry Inventory Number: 71

Racing at the Bois de Bolulogne (1862) 
Origin: Fashion Plate. See Above.
Size: 5"X7" in a 12"X14" mat (backed)
Age: 19th century

Condition: Excellent. 
Price: $50.

Pillowry 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: $1200.

Pillowry 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.

Pillowry 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.

Pillowry 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.

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4169

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

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

This could be used as it was originally if you have a horse drawn carriage. If you don't the lap robe would make a nice throw in a vintage house at the foot of a bed or on a couch..
Condition: very good
Price: $120.

Pillowry Inventory Number: 2701

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

Price: $120.