A KARABAGH LONG RUG

Details
A KARABAGH LONG RUG
SOUTH CAUCASUS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The madder red field with two ivory and one indigo stepped floral medallions flanked by polychrome boteh within an ivory palmette and slant-leaf border
Approximately 9ft. 4in. x 3ft. 11in. (285cm. x 120cm.)
Provenance
Collection of James Franklin Ballard
Literature
MacLean, Arthur and Dorothy Blair, Catalogue of Oriental Rugs in the Collection of James F. Ballard, Indianapolis, 1924, p. 8, cat. ill. no. 4.
Exhibited
Carnegie Institute, Pittsbugh, 1923
The John Herron Art Institute, Indanapolis, 1924