Lot Essay
For two very closely related rugs see HALI 48, December 1989, advertising page 60 (Alan de Monceau); and Rippon Boswell & Co., Wiesbaden, 12 November 1994, lot 194.
NORTH EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880
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A DAGHESTAN LONG RUG
NORTH EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880
The field with diagonal brick-red, ivory and charcoal grey stripes together with one light blue stripe containing scattered small lozenge motifs, in a border of polychrome reciprocal triple arrowheads between green and red arrowhead meander and red and yellow crab rosette and minor barber-pole stripes, corroded black very slight repairs, one selvage replaced
8ft. x 3ft.4in. (244cm. x 102cm.)
NORTH EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880
The field with diagonal brick-red, ivory and charcoal grey stripes together with one light blue stripe containing scattered small lozenge motifs, in a border of polychrome reciprocal triple arrowheads between green and red arrowhead meander and red and yellow crab rosette and minor barber-pole stripes, corroded black very slight repairs, one selvage replaced
8ft. x 3ft.4in. (244cm. x 102cm.)