EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880

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A KUBA LONG RUG
East Caucasus, circa 1880
The golden yellow field with overall angular palmettes and floral sprays with very scattered flowerheads and geometric motifs, in an ivory angular S-motif border between rust-red, spiralling ribbon and arrow-head minor stripes, even light wear throughout central field, small areas of repiling mostly to corroded black, old small repair, selvages replaced
10ft.4in. x 3ft.4in. (314cm. x 102cm.)

Provenance

Rippon Boswell & Co, Wiesbaden, 16 Nov 1991 lot 59.

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Lot Essay

A similar example is published in Antique Oriental Carpets from Austrian Collections, exhibition catalogue, Vienna, 1986, No. 59. Ours has three, not four, angular palmettes separated by floral sprays along the bottom of the field. Both examples have occasional border S-motifs executed in red, not black.

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