PROBABLY KARABAGH DISTRICT, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

The carpet from which this fragment comes was made as a pair to one formerly in the John D. McIlhenny Collection (Charles Grant Ellis, Oriental Carpets in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1988, no.45, pp.144-5). In his catalogue entry Ellis publishes two other comparable examples. Two further examples are in the Harold Keshishian Collection (The Treasure of the Caucasus, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C., 1993, no.2, pp.20-21) and the Kirchheim Collection (E. Heinrich Kirchheim, Orient Stars. A Carpet Collection, Stuttgart and London, 1993, no.71, p.137).