Sumak bag face
N°
05192
Period
Circa 1800
Origin
Moghan-Savalan plain, Northwest Persia
Status
Sold
Size
34 x 28 cm1'1" x 11"
An early chanta bag face, which is the front of a small, personal bag, very finely woven with silk ground wefts. Here a central hexagon enclosing a stylised zoomorphic motif is surrounded by two different mirror image pairs of what appear as fertility figures. The ancient language displayed by some of these tribal objects imparts a truly archaic feeling to the composition, giving the impression being confronted with the earliest, purest form of a particular design.