Azeri Salt Bag
N°
04007
Period
Circa 1880
Origin
Qarabagh area, Central Caucasus
Status
Sold
Size
56 cm x 451'10" x 1'5"
A joyfully embroidered salt bag, with a weft-faced plain weave background patterned by various types of weft-float brocading and weft-twining, resulting in a pattern of large polychrome diamonds enclosing hooked lozenges in contrasting colours. In original complete condition, including a beautifully coloured striped back, its neck is brocaded by various motifs and the bottom is reinforced, in extra-weft wrapping, by an arrow-like element. Objects of this type were probably never used for their intended function, but represented the material culture of each tribe.