EAST CAUCASUS, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A KUBA LONG RUG
East Caucasus, first half 19th century
The shaded pale blue field with overall afshan design of rosettes linked by angular flowering vine ending with split palmettes, in a brick-red mock-kufic border between ivory flowerhead and linked angular vine minor stripes, even overall wear, small minor scattered reweaves, backed
12ft.2in. x 5ft.1in. (370cm. x 155cm.)

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Lot Essay

The shaded pale blue field colour on this example is much lighter than the dark blue or indigo field which, as Dr Friedrich Spuhler notes in his discussion of two examples in the Berlin Museum, almost invariably dominates Kuba carpets of this group (Spuhler, Friedrich: Oriental Carpets in the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, London, 1988, nos.110 and 111, pp.99-100, ill.pp.250-251).

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