Item Ref
BM1966
This rare and highly unusual, knotted-pile, half saddle-bag was made by Shahsevan tribes in the Bijar region of north-west Persia during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
The beautiful natural colour in reds, blues and green dominate the unusual overall 'shrub' pattern on an ivory background with nuances of golden-yellow intermixed.
The back, in plain-weave technique, is exciting with its wide horizontal bands of 'zig-zags' which, I was told by an elderly nomadic woman during my time with the nomads in the 1970s, represented migrating birds.
At one time this bag would have had a bridge leading to another bag of the same, but as is often the case, these saddle-bags were cut up by unscrupulous dealers who saw the prospect of making more money from individual bags! Nevertheless, this bag is unique and very collectable.
Size: 66cm x 76cm (2' 2" x 2' 6").
£1,250