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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN, FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF COLONEL NORMAN COLVILLE M.C. (1893-1974)

A SMALL 'SHIELD' RUG

NORTH WEST PERSIA OR EAST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1800

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A SMALL 'SHIELD' RUG
North West Persia or East Anatolia, circa 1800
The medium-blue field with a scattered stylised shield design together wtih minor motifs in a shaded rust and brown border of angular flowering vine between pale-yellow angular floral meander and barber-pole stripes, one end rewoven, three reweaves
4ft.5in. x 2ft.10in. (135cm. x 86.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

The design of this most unusual small rug obviously has links to the Caucasian shield carpets of the eighteenth century (Pinner, Robert and Franses, Michael: "Caucasian Shield Carpets", Hali vol.1, no.1, pp.4-21). Both have vertical columns of angular palmettes on a (frequently light) blue ground. The present rug is however a very rural rendering of the subject with numerous quirks both in the design and weaving. The dark wool wefts and substantially depressed warps indicate an origin outside the Caucasus, most probably in Eastern Anatolia,

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