POSSIBLY SERABEND DISTRICT, CIRCA 1850

Details

A WEST PERSIAN LONG RUG
POSSIBLY SERABEND DISTRICT, CIRCA 1850
The dark chocolate-brown field with overall mina-khani pattern in an ivory angular arabesque flowering vine border between red floral and minor stripes, slight wear, selvages replaced
9ft.4in. x 3ft.7in. (284cm. x 109cm.)

Provenance

Anon sale Sotheby's Billingshurst, 19 September 1995, lot 594

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Lot Essay

While the mina khani field design of this rug is not unusual, it is rare to find it combined with such a good rendering of a border more frequently found in eighteenth century Caucasian weavings (Serare Yetkin: Early Caucasian Carpets in Turkey, London, 1983, p.84). The present rug is however unusually woven with a single wefted all-cotton structure, strongly indicating a West Persian attribution.

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