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This extremely fine ''chanteh'' or vanity-bag was made by the Afshar Qorab''i tribes in Kerman Province, southern Persia circa 1900-1920. The knotted-pile face of the bag contains two large stylised ''botehs'' or Zoarostrian flame symbols on a vivid indigo-blue ground. My belief is that the botehs are fertility symbols with the red boteh representing the female and the ivory boteh, the male. On either side of each boteh are trees-of-life symbols representing eternal life in Paradise. The back of this beautiful bag is woven in plain madder-red plainweave and the bag is finished with tassels on two sides and the bottom symbolising happiness.
Size: 52cm x 33cm (1'' 9'' x 1'' 1'').
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Internal Reference: BM2293
Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1146954
Dateline of this antique is 1920
Height is 33cm (13.0inches)Width is 52cm (20.5inches)Depth is 0cm (0.0inches)
Antique SA1146954 shown on this page was made in 1920. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was created:
1920
ANTIQUE SA1146954
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Brian MacDonald Antique Rugs & Carpets
Dealing in antique and old tribal rugs, dowry weavings and decorative carpets from the Near East and Central Asia since 1979.
Gloucestershire
United Kingdom
Tel: 01451 824 447 or 07980 999 114
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