Ispahan Carpet / Persian carpet
Baltov, collection of Count Lepinsky; Vienna, Art Dealer Glückselig; Purchased from Glückselig by Ferenc Hatvany for 7000 pounds; 1942-44 in the Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest; 1944/45 Missing from the deposit at the Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest; whereabouts unknown
It is unknown whether the loss during the Nazi persecution was caused by the German army, by the Soviet army, or by others.
Zwei unbekannte Hauptwerke persischer Teppichkunst. In: Pantheon, 1931. p. 24ff.; E. Gerlőtei: L’ancienne collection François de Hatvany, 1966, pp. 360, 372; Sacco di Budapest. Depredation of Hungary 1938-1949. No: 17127, p. 269; A. Ledács-Kiss-Béláné Szüts:Ismerjük meg a keleti szőnyegeket, 1977. No. XXIV., XXV.; Szalon 1998/3. Békefi Eszter: Miniatúra gyapjúból, pp. 31-35; Kálmán Pogány: Complete Inventory of the Baron Ferenc Hatvany Collection, manuscript, 1937. No. IV. 4
Exhibited: Exhibition of Old Oriental Carpets by the Association of Hungarian Carpet Enthusiasts at the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 1924, No. 126; Exhibition of Old Persian Carpets. A Descriptive Catalog. Museum of Applied Art, 1936. No. 4. Pl. II