SOUTH CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1830

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A TALISH RUG
South Caucasus, circa 1830
The rust-red field with a bold design of angular branches issuing from a column of serrated leaf-motifs, in a shaded fir-green border of rosettes alternating with groups of four small flowerheads between ivory hooked polychrome flowerhead and minor plain stripes, slight damage and repair in centre, corroded black, generally good pile
7ft.10in. x 3ft.3in. (238cm. x 99cm.)

Literature

Herrmann, E: Seltene Orientteppiche, VIII, Munich, 1986, pl.36

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Lot Essay

Red ground Talish rugs are considerably rarer than ones with blue grounds. The present rug appears to belong to a subgroup which has either a white border with green gaurd stripes or these colours reversed. The design of the guard stripes also tends to be the same as is found here (Oriental Rugs from Atlantic Collections, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia, 1996, no.77, p.77 - an unusually long example dated to circa 1800; Eiland, Murray L. Jr.: Oriental Rugs from Pacific Collections, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, 1990, no.214b, p.207; Hali 42, November/December 1988, Kailash advertisement, pp.44-5 or from the Jim Burns Collection, Chirstie's London, 18 October 2001, lot 252). The field of the present rug is unique within the group with its wonderfully powerful tree forms.

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