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Auction 05 June 2022 Rarities from Around the World. Finest Rugs & Art including NFTs at NO Extra Charge - Washington DC

Bid on the lot list 1st Bid : 05 June 2022 - Coming June 5, 1stbid Offers Antique Art and Artisanal Rugs in June Auction—Now Sold with NFTsEven as technology advances by leaps and bounds the classic works of painters, sculptors and weavers remain as vital and authentic as ever. Fortunately, you can have both the exquisite artistry of traditional masters with the flash and dash of the digital era in 1stbid’s forthcoming June auctionOver 222 antique and vintage items ranging from 18th-century paintings and contemporary sculpture to tribal rugs handwoven by Qashqai nomads will fall under the hammer at this online event running from June-5-7—one in which each item sold also may come with its own digital NFT copy for free.Leading the pack with a starting bid of $475,000 is a <a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/fat-english-gentleman-banker-bronze-fernando-bote-c-447457ca4e" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">caricatural statue</a> by Colombian sculptor Fernando Botero, founder of the slyly exaggerated Boterismo style. Fanciers of New England-style Americana will adore a luminous <a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/landscape-painting-by-alfred-bricher-3010-c-e92426ca6b" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">seascape by painter Alfred Bricher</a> of the 19th century Hudson Valley school opening at $75,000. Lovers of distinctive rugs and wall hangings will be intrigued by Persian Lavar Kerman rugs with <a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/antique-lavar-kerman-rug-210-x-296-5087-c-d10482fb3b" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">colorful bucolic imagery</a> or mythological characters <a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/antique-lavar-kerman-rug-75-x-104-258-c-2d447399d3" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">styled after a Francois Boucher tapestry</a>.Those with more modern tastes will be beguiled by abstract sculptures by <a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/abstract-form-by-barbara-hepworth-3001-c-af2440d8d8" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">Barbara Hepworth</a>, <a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/abstract-sculpture-byalexander-archipenko-3004-c-3ae447cbbf" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">Alexander Archipenko</a>, and <a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/-EEA4C7DBC0" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">Elie Nadelman</a>, while buyers on a budget will find many exquisitely detailed <a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/antique-farahan-sarouk-rug-33-x-411-7485-c-6514704b1e" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">hand-crafted Persian rugs</a> within their means, with bids starting in the low thousands of dollars.Reflecting the latest trend in digital art collection, all items sold will also be furnished as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) at no extra charge at the request of the purchaser. That’s right, you can receive a high-quality digital copy of each purchase that is unique in your possession at no additional cost. This marks a wonderful opportunity to start collecting NFTs while also acquiring the physical original.Live bidding kicks off at 2 PM EST on Sunday, June 5 on 1stbid<a href="https://live.finerugsny.com/auctions/fine-rugs-of-chevy-chase/rarities-from-around-the-world-finest-rugs-art-including-nfts-at-no-extra-charge-9344" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">’s auction platform</a>, as well as on <a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/247678_rarities-from-around-the-world-finest-rugs/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">Live Auctioneers</a>, <a href="https://www.invaluable.com/catalog/krppbrs7e0" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">Invaluable</a>, and <a href="https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/fine-rugs-of-chevy-chase/unique-collection-of-vintage-and-antique-rugs-8703" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">Bidsquare</a>. Prospective buyers are welcome to place bids up to a specified amount prior to the auction if they so wish.Those interested may contact Mr. Mashihi at <a href="mailto:info@finerugsny.com" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">info@1stbid.com</a> for further information, are welcome to visit showrooms in Manhattan and Washington DC (open seven days a week), or may find more online at the 1stbid <a href="https://finerugsny.com/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--colorLink);">website</a>. Since Moussa Mashihi opened his first store in Cairo in 1916, his family has traded in the finest rugs and objects d’art drawing from a global network of artisans and art dealers. Today, Moussa’s grandson Victor maintains the family legacy and its legendary collection with unique masterworks handwoven in villages in Persia, North Africa, the Caucasus mountains, and beyond. In addition to maintaining decorous storefronts in New York and Washington DC, Mashihi remains at the cutting edge of auctioning rugs and diverse other forms of art on today’s digital platforms. 1st Bid - Washington DC

Rarities from Around the World. Finest Rugs & Art including NFTs at NO Extra Charge

Sunday 05 June 2022 - 14:00 (EDT) - Live

1251 Wisconsin Avenue - 20007 Washington DC, États-Unis

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Rarities from Around the World. Finest Rugs & Art including NFTs at NO Extra Charge

Lot n° 105

Antique Farahan Sarouk Rug, 4’2’’ X 5’10’’

This well woven, cotton foundation West Persian scatter features floating dark chocolate medallion with vigourous interior forked and spiral arabesques, small escutcheon pendant and tonally en suite corners with palmettes and stems, all on a sandy cream...

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Lot n° 110

Antique Farahan Sarouk Rug, 4’3’’ x 6’8’’

The madder rose field shows an allover repeat in two columns of multiple sickle leaves and lazy palmettes,with a central broken like of 12 lobed star rosettes. Near black main border of rosettes, floret sprays and skinny palmettes. Appealing light blue,...

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Lot n° 112

Antique Tehran Rug, 4’9’’ X 6’8’’

A very finely woven, interwar scatter from the Iranian capital city, with a modified Zil-i-Sultan design of well-packed offset echelons of floral bouquets, vases and paired perching birds, on a sandy ground. Straw main border of paired flowerheads. Characteristic...

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Lot n° 117

Antique Tehran Rug, 4’5’’ X 6’8’’

The pale straw semi-open field differs oh so slightly at least in the picture from the sandy-straw border ground. A floating oval wreath of palmettes, forked and curled leaves and arabesque bits expands at the corners and is amplified by complex palmettes...

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Lot n° 122

Antique Tabriz Rug, 4’8’’ X 5’11’’

This C. 1900 NW Persian urban scatter presents an abrashed cream to straw field closely covered by a small scale allover Herati design, centred by a lightly stepped rust medallion en suite in pattern. Stepped straw=sad corners. Near black strip-style...

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Lot n° 147

Antique Kashan Rug, 4’7’’ X 6’8’’

This finely woven, cotton foundation, central Persian city scatter with a velvety Manchester-spun pile, shows a subtle square gridwork of tightly wound spiral floral volute on a nearly covered red ground. Near black main border of in-and-out escutcheons...

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Lot n° 161

Antique Turkish Silk Hereke Rug, 3’5’’ x 4’11’’

Rug weaving was revived in Hereke near Istanbul in the 1960’s and this extremely fine, all silk construction Wall piece is characteristic of that work with a shaped beige niche field with an asymmetric display of irises, racemes and stems, the elements...

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Lot n° 165

Fine Silk Qum Rug, 4’4’’ X 6’11’’

This modern urban fine weave all ilk scatter shows a particularly complex, filigree design based around a central round medallion with 16 flaming lobes, on a cream field. The medallion is positioned by near black vertical bands and further enhanced by...

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Lot n° 184

Antique Turkish Hereke Rug, 3’3’’ X 4’6’’

This is a very finely woven, all silk small scatter from NW Turkey, near Istanbul,with a central uplifted vase flanked by two full height branching, leafing and flowering trees, all on a cream ground. Red border with comfortably set star rosettes and...

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Lot n° 206

Fine Antique Nain Toudeshk Rug, 4’9’’ X 8’5’’

This relatively early, Interwar large scatter eschews the usual medallion pattern for a dense allover pattern based on full ivory four palmette quatrefoils and half ivory octogrammes on a deep navy ground with a layered large central rosette. Greens,...

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Lot n° 210

Antique Isfahan Rug, 4’10 X 6’8’’

The old ivory field with a dense layering of palmettes and spiral vines is classic Isfahan, but the double central tall motif consisting of two vases, associated botehs, largwe and ragged laurel leaf pairs and a central cartouche is unique. A light blue...

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Lot n° 258

Antique Lavar Kerman Rug, 7’5’’ X 10’4’’

In the style of a French mythological tapestry, this finely woven SE Persian city carpet has a design known in several larger and smaller examples. Ours is just right. Against a navy ground with a millefleurs pattern, three musical putti float above a...

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Lot n° 261

Fine Silk Qum Rug, 6’4’’ X 9’9’’

Qum and Kashan are both in central Persia and this modern, well-woven Qum clearly takes after its Kashan predecessor, with a straw field under elaborate spandrels. Paired peacocks decorate the spandrels and a veritable menagerie including stags, pheasants,...

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Lot n° 274

Antique French Tapestry, 9’1 X 11’2’’

This colourful tapestry shows a scene froma “Don Quixote” series with exotically dressed male and female figures expelling our hero from an arcaded stone structure with two thickly draped arcatures, down a few steps and into a verdant environment. Active...

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Lot n° 286

Antique Haji Jalili Rug, 6’3’’ x 8’6’’

Hereke silks, woven continuously since the early 1960’s are among the finest rugs available today. In consonance with the general contemporary palette, this all silk scatter shows a raised, florally effulgent vase, situated between two branching, swaying...

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Lot n° 291

Fine Nain Rug, 5’3’’ X 9’5’’

The pendant mate to our 289, with a similar very fine urban weave of resilient “Kurk” wool and very crispo dyes producing a deep navy ground centred by a 16-point medallion with round ivory core and leaf pendants. Ivory barbed triangular corners with...

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Lot n° 295

Fine Tabriz Rug, 6’7’’ X 10’2’’

Elaboration knows no bounds on this very finely woven, NW Persian urban carpet with an eggshell sub-field hosting myriads of racemes, vinery segments, palmettes and botehs. The artistically nested oval medallion employs pendants and attached boteh-like...

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Lot n° 324

Antique Shirvan Rug, 3’5’’ X 8’9’’

From the southern Caucasus, this good condition long piece presents a dark indigo blue field decorated with a diamond lattice enclosing row by row reversing botehs, but all in one general direction. Madder red main border with ivory, yellow, near black,...

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Lot n° 330

Antique Kazak Rug, 4’11’’ X 7’0’’

This is a so-called ‘Lambalo’ Kazak scatter from the SW Caucasus with a very narrow red field spottily ornamented with birds and an animal, an embedded in five borders borrowed fropm large Lori-Pambok Kazak rugs,. The red band shows stars and quartered...

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Lot n° 349

Antique Kazak Rug, 5’2’’ X 10’1’’

The warm, glowing, faintly abrashed mature madder red field displays exactly six obliquely rayed and voluted “bug” palmettes in brown-black, medium-light blue and straw. The ivory main border displays discrete rayed diamonds and triple quincunx-like elements,...

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Lot n° 355

Antique Shirvan Rug, 4’4’’ x 8’5’’

In a style related to flatwoven Kuba soumak rugs, the royal blue field hosts three pointed, reticulated cruciform medallions with dark blue central octagons. Secondary lozenge “guls” decorate the dark blue lateral “flaps” and tiny animals accent the pattern....

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Lot n° 386

Antique Turkish Silk Hereke Rug, 3’4’’ X 5’0’’

EXTREAMLY FINE ANTIQUE TURKISH SILK HEREKEH

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Lot n° 387

Antique Mohajeran Sarouk Rug, 2’5’’ x 4’9’’

This West Persian village scatter is significantly finer than the usual run of Sarouks and the general high quality allows an attribution to the standout Mohajeran village. The nearly black navy field is another support for the attribution. The pattern...

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Lot n° 473

Antique Bidjar Rug, 4’10 X 7’3’’

The beautifully abashed coral-rust madder open field is anchored by a lightly scalloped navy medallion with an ivory octofoil centre and light blue petal palmette pendants, within navy corners and slender side bars. Ivory reversing turtle palmette main...

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Lot n° 481

Antique Tabriz Hajijalili Rug, 4’6’’ X 5’10’’

The very desirable copper-rust field supports a bilaterally symmetric design of cypresses, ragged and petal palmettes, sickle leave and bent leaves, against a scatter of small posies. Navy strip border of cartouches. “Hajji Jalili” quality with a briskly...

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Lot n° 498

Antique Farahan Sarouk Rug, 4’3’’ X 6’7’’

This well-woven rustic west Persian scatter shows a semi-urban allover textile pattern of open lozenges, strongly serrated leaves, radiating flower groups and arabesques defining reserves. Green, navy, brown-black and red are among the detail tones. Narrow...

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Lot n° 502

Antique Qashqai Rug, 2’10 X 5’5’’

From the Qashquli subtribe in Fars Province, SW Persia, this well-woven small scatter, with top-quality nomadic wool, shows a camel-straw field with blue-black shield corner cartouches and floral side meanders shows a brilliant red notch stepped pointed...

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Lot n° 506

Antique Senneh Rug, 4’9’’ X 6’4’’

We attribute this silk-pile, finely woven scatter to the west Persian Kurdistan town of Senneh, although it may be more of a Senneh-baf (Senneh-weave) Tabriz from further to the northwest. The sand field shows a pallmette, rosette and short stem design...

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Lot n° 515

Antique Silk Heriz Rug, 5’3’’ X 7’0’’

In a general urban Turkish style, with a rust red field, this very finely woven NW Persian scatter shows lateral floral “columns” flanking a long-petal boquet topped with a crown, under scalloped ivory hyacinth spray corners. Ivory strip-style border...

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Lot n° 526

Antique Kashan Rug, 7’6’’ X 10’3’’

This good condition, central Persian city rug, with a fine weave and velvety surface, emanates from the famed “Mohtasham” atelier in Kashan. A pale teal sub-medallion is set on the axially extended octogramme rust medallion which, in turn, focuses the...

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Lot n° 530

Antique Nain Habibian Rug, 6’0’’ X 9’0’’

The navy ground is decorated with birds and running animals along with leafy stems and shrubs, and supports a three full-column allover pattern of cartouches, octilobe roundels and eight-lobe motives. Details in cream, light green and light blue. Mushroom...

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Lot n° 542

Antique Serapi Rug, 4’10’’ X 6’0’’

The large majority of NW Persian Heriz district weavings are room size carpets, a the smaller ones, As here, take after their larger sisters in both palette and pattern as well exemplified here by the warm madder red ground, navy ragged octogramme pendanted...

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Lot n° 549

Antique Bakhtiari Rug, 4’9’’ X 7’9’’

This is a well-woven sacatter from the vllagers in the Chahar Mahal district in central Persia. These rugs are often called “Bakhtiari”, although these latter weave mostly bags and not pile rugs. The navy ground is closely covered by tiny flowers and...

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Lot n° 598

Antique Farahan Sarouk Rug, 9'10" x 12'7"

Antique Farahan Sarouk Rug.

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Lot n° 599

Antique Mohtasham Kashan Rug, 11'1" x 15'7"

Antique Mohtasham Kashan Rug.

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Lot n° 600

Chinese Painting Yan Ping

Acrylic on canvas.

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Lot n° 601

Manner of Hermann David Salomon Corrodi

Manner of Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (ITALIAN, 1844–1905) oil on canvas, Orientalist Market Scene. Unsigned. In vintage wood frame with gilt molding. In good condition, surface grime, yellowing varnish, and minor stretcher marks. Morphy Auctions Floor...

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Lot n° 602

Glass Hanging by John La Farge

John La Farge leaded glass hanging window glass approx 17 1/4" diam. The entire hanging length from bottom to the hanging point is approx 41".

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Lot n° 603

Painting by Rufin Gavrilvich Sudkovsky

Rufin Gavrilvich Sudkovsky (1850-1885), Oil on Canvas

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Lot n° 604

Oil on Canvas by

Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky (RUSSIAN, 1839–1915) oil on wood panel 19" x 12 1/4" Frame: 24 1/8" x 17 3/8" Orientalist oil on canvas board. "Munady" Signed lower left 'C. Makowsky" with brass plaque reading "Cairo / "Munady" / Constantin Makowsky (1...

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Lot n° 605

Landscape by Everett Shinn

Everett Shinn oil on panel Incredible landscape with a lady hanging her clothing in the woods.

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Lot n° 606

Pencil on Paper by Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell (AMERICAN, 1894–1978) pencil on paper. Drawing depicting an artist studying a painting in a museum. Signed lower right.

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Lot n° 607

Oil on Canvas by Michele Cascella

Michele Cascella (AMERICAN/ITALIAN, 1892–1989) oil on canvas landscape. Signed lower left.

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Lot n° 608

Madonna del Prato by School of Raphael

School of Raphael o/c 20.25" x 15.5" frame: 24" x 19" copy of Madonna del Prato from a Rye NY collection

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Lot n° 609

Flora Bronze by Hippolyte Moreau

Flora Bronze by Hippolyte Moreau (1832-1927).

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Lot n° 610

The Blacksmith of Solingen Bronze

The blacksmith of Soligen bronze, partly painted. Patina rubbed and partially lacquer paint.

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Lot n° 622

Antique Bidjar Rug, 4’7’’ X 7’0’’

This virtually indestructible, board-like Kurdish city scatter from NW Persia, shows a saturated tomato red field with a close, allover textile pattern of elaborately curved leaves, layered exploding palmettes and imaginative small Rococo vegetal motives....

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Lot n° 632

Antique Serapi Rug, 4’11’’ X 6’7’’

‘Serapi’ is a trade term for better woven and drawn antique Heriz rugs such as this one with an exceptional natural dye palette including madder for the subfield, indigo for the complex veined medallion, weld for the yellow highlights and natural undyed...

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Lot n° 688

Antique Qashqai Rug, 8’4’’ X 15’4’’

Very rare to find a SW Persian nomadic Qasghai weaving in such a large size. Field divided vertically in a “cane” design of bands in ivory, navy and mustard, with identical meander and fan palmette patterns. Analogously patterned red main border. Wool...

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Lot n° 727

Fine Tabriz Rug, 5’7’’ X 9’6’’

A finely woven, cotton foundation, sophisticated NW Persian recent city carpet with an ovoid cream field supporting an octogramme sub-medallion and a surrounding, conforming, lobed medallion. Small palmettes on vinery fill field. Additional end borders...

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