MID 19TH CENTURY

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AN EAST CAUCASIAN LONG RUG
MID 19TH CENTURY
Areas of wear and corrosion, severe in a couple of places, selvages replaced, ends missing knots but secured
12ft.4in. x 4ft.5in. (376cm. x 135cm.)

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Lot Essay

This very elegant runner has medallions that relate it to a group of Kurdish rugs a number of which bear dates from the mid-nineteenth century. One from the James D. Burns Collection was sold in these Rooms, 18 October 2001, lot 281; the note to that lot gives references to five further related examples.

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