Lot 137
137
A KARABAGH LONG RUG

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A KARABAGH LONG RUG
SOUTH CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880

The charcoal-grey field with diagonal rows of stylised angular rose sprays together with a human figure and two stylised birds, in a shaded green border of serrated leaves alternating with rosettes between barber-pole minor stripes, some repiling of corroded black, repaired crease line
Approximately 10ft.7in. x 5ft. (322cm. x 152cm.)

Warp: ivory wool, Z3S, sometimes very slightly depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: 2 shoots, wool, white or white with brown threads, Z2S, one undulating, the other undulating somewhat stronger
Pile: wool, Z2S, symmetrical inclining to the right, H2.9 x V2.7/cm.
Sides: additional red wool weft flatwoven around four additional pairs of warps, main wefts flatwoven around these warps
Lower end: 1cm. flatweave with ivory wool wefts Z2S
Provenance
Acquired in Munich 28 October 1954 as a "Karabagh" for DM950

Lot Essay

A rug of very similar design, both in the field and in the border, bearing the date of 1886 and with the Armenian weaver's inscription of Maktagh Grigorian, was exhibited in Washington D.C. (Weavers, Merchants and Kings, exhibition catalogue, Fort Worth, 1984, no.38, pp.142-143).

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