Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Property from the Collection of the late Naim Attallah CBE (1931-2021)
No reserve
Auction Closed
October 27, 03:41 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
the red and blue plain weave field decorated with stylised peacocks
approximately 207 by 137cm.
Amongst Attallah’s many collecting passions, rugs was one of the most dear to him, covering the walls, beds and floors of his Mayfair apartment. His son recollects visits with his father to see Jean Lefevre, in Knightsbridge during the early 1970’s, remembering them as very good friends, and the source for most of the pieces his father bought. Attallah was known for wearing vivid coloured odd socks and iridescent silk linings to his jackets; his son recalls it was the love of colour in the carpets that his father had most enjoyed about living with them, over the intervening four decades since his collection was formed.