EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880

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A SHIRVAN LONG RUG
EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880
Overall very good condition
10ft.2in. x 3ft.3in. (311cm. x 103cm.)

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Lot Essay

A comparable east Caucasian rug displaying five rectangular medallions with angular, stylised animals within each of their corners, attributed to Daghestan, is published by Eberhart Herrmann, (Von Ushak Bis Yarkand, Munich 1982, pl.51). Another, shorter example is in Ulrich Schurmann's, Caucasian Rugs, Braunschweig, 1961, pp.200-201, pl.68.

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