A KUBA SOUMAC LONG RUG

EAST CAUCASUS CIRCA 1890

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A KUBA SOUMAC LONG RUG
EAST CAUCASUS CIRCA 1890
The medium blue field with a central column of angular leafy, flowering and palmette vine delicately divided into panels and surrounded by minor motifs in a reciprocal skittle-pattern frame, in an ivory- polychrome crab-rosette border between charcoal-grey linked flowerhead and polychrome S-motif stripes, inner ivory linked hexagon stripe, braided ends, minimal repair
9ft. x 3ft.7in. (274cm. x 109cm.)

Lot Essay

For soumac rugs with very similar field design, see Herrmann, E.: Asiatische Teppich und Textilkunst, Munich, 1991, no.26; Boralevi, A.: Soumakh, Florence, 1986, no.22, pp.74-5; and one sold in our New York salerooms, 15 December 1995, lot 139.

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