SOUTH CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880

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A KAZAK RUNNER
South Caucasus, circa 1880
The ivory field with paired polychrome Memling guls divided by a variety of rosettes, serrated lozenges and hexagonal panels, in a frame of open polychrome flowerheads, in a shaded brick-red border of polychrome stellar flowerheads between reciprocal skittle-pattern and barber-pole stripes, a striped kilim strip at each end, a couple of minute repairs, basically excellent condition
11ft.1in. x 3ft.5in. (337cm. x 104cm.)

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Lot Essay

This is a remarkable Moghan runner with outstanding use of colour, in excelelnt condition, with an interesting play of different motifs in the central column of lozenges. Paired Memling guls are a frequent motif for the centre of a Moghan rug, but almost invariably contained within octagons rather than left open as here.

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