Title: “MAGIC CARPET RIDE”
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Size: 30” W x 40” H
(unframed) Sold
Story:
I have been so blessed to touch, feel and experience so many rare antiquities from the far east, central asia and beyond. Their unique provenance and stories leave me and so many of my collectors awestruck. One day one of my favorite antique dealers "Abdo", who travels on horse and camel all over central asia, in quest of antique treasures, called me from his satellite mobile. He described this wild antique camel contraption....yes I said camel, that consisted of a small carpet where a camel rider would sit, with wild multicolored silk cord mesh dangling from it, with hundreds of wild orange yarn tassels suspended from it. Apparently it is known as a "camel fly swatter" that bats the pesky flies away with each movement of the camel over long desert journeys. Sight unseen, I said "I'll take it", and 10 weeks later it arrived at my studio. Although tempted to title this work "Swat'n flies", my more serious side said "Magic Carpet Ride" for this colorful work. Enjoy and Namaste.
Materials:
A late 1800s Indonesian hand carved wooden section from a jewelry box with copper repousse, topped with mid 1800s Tibetan gilden wood section from a traveling altar, beneath an early 1800s Chinese bronze belt buckle depicting 2 Fu lions at play with suspended late 1800s Lakai tassel (also 2 at top) from a woman's headdress, resting on a late 1800s Turkmenistan camel flyswatter carpet, surrounded with painted vintage Chinese fabrics, with "hats" (above & below) of contemporary Lakai-Adras hand dyed silk wrapped in late 1800s Turkmenistan flyswatter multicolored silk cord mesh, mounted onto acrylic painted and gilded museum board with peek-a-boo to mid 1800s Japanese ledger paper from a grocery store, flanked with (red) painted Yixing plaster, all mounted onto museum panel.
For more information and pricing please contact Sargent’s Fine Art in Lahaina, HI toll-free at 800-440-1278.
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