EAST CAUCASUS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A SHIRVAN RUG
East Caucasus, early 19th century
The golden yellow field scattered with minor motifs around a column of linked stepped panels with pendants containing stylised flowerheads issuing angular motifs framed by polychrome square panels with stylised floral motifs, in a shaded blue border with S-motifs issuing angular stepped vine together with chequered panels between rust-red linked cross-motif and ivory angular vine meander stripes, scattered repiling, minor repairs
8ft.2in. x 4ft.2in. (279cm. x 127cm.)

Literature

Burns, James D.: The Caucasus, Traditions in Weaving, Seattle, 1987, no.23.

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Lot Essay

The field design on this rug is very similar to that of the preceding lot. Again it has the open spacing typical of the earliest examples of the type; it also has particularly nicely rounded palmettes at each end. In his caption to this piece Burns notes that he has only come across the box inner border seen here on the earliest examples of the group. The Hermann piece mentioned in the note to the preceding lot is also comparable to this one; it has the same border as is seen here but the colours of the field and border are reversed from those here. One other yellow ground example is also published, but the drawing is much stiffer and it must be a fair bit later than the present rug (Herrmann, Eberhart: Von Lotto bis Tekke (Seltene Orientteppiche I), Munich, 1978, no.28, p.37). The drawing, the colours, and the appearance of the back all indicate a date of early in the nineteenth century or even at the end of the eighteenth.

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