Two Small Bezalel Rugs, Jerusalem Circa 1910

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Description

14 by 9 in. and 114 by 6.5 in.
36 by 23 cm. and 36 by 42 cm.

the first depicting the Tomb of Absalom, inscribed along the borders with the word "Zion" with cartouches and "The hand of Zion", signed Bezalel Jerusalem; the second with a depiction of Rachel's Tomb

Literature

Anton Felton, Jewish Carpets, Suffolk, 1997 no.s 40 and 41, pp. 108 and 109, both illustrated