SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY

Details

A SOUTH CAUCASIAN RUG
SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
The brick-red field with an overall angular version of the afshan design, in a sea-blue angular linked flowerhead border between zigzag stripes, considerable wear, a few scattered repairs, backed, reduced in length
9ft.4in.x 5ft.7in. (283cm. x 173cm.)

Provenance

Campbell Reid Collection, Edinburgh

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Lot Essay

This charming if somewhat worn carpet uses a simplified variant of the afshan design so popular in the Caucasian region in the eighteenth century. The weave and colouring are similar to those of a small rug with a shrub and tree design sold in our King Street Rooms from the Davide Halevim Collection, 14 February 2001, lot 131.

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