Lot Essay
See note to lot 50
EAST CAUCASUS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
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A DRAGON SOUMAC CARPET
EAST CAUCASUS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The shaded brick-red field scattered with a variety of hooked floral panels, leaves, rosettes and animals around a central column of bold interlocking serrated bottle-green, indigo and ivory panels containing similar motifs and enclosing hooked golden yellow similar panels, in a charcoal-grey border of polychrome octagons alternating with chequered panels and X-motifs between ivory rosette and minor mill-pattern stripes, outer running dog stripe, scattered small restorations, corroded black substantially reworked
10ft.7in. x 7ft.2in. (322cm. x 218cm.)
EAST CAUCASUS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The shaded brick-red field scattered with a variety of hooked floral panels, leaves, rosettes and animals around a central column of bold interlocking serrated bottle-green, indigo and ivory panels containing similar motifs and enclosing hooked golden yellow similar panels, in a charcoal-grey border of polychrome octagons alternating with chequered panels and X-motifs between ivory rosette and minor mill-pattern stripes, outer running dog stripe, scattered small restorations, corroded black substantially reworked
10ft.7in. x 7ft.2in. (322cm. x 218cm.)