SOUTH CAUCASUS, DATED AH 1328/1910 AD

The Chajli pattern of three alternating red and white octagonal medallions were more frequently woven on a red ground as see in a closely related example, formerly in the Wher collection in Lugano, Switzerland and then in a private collection, England (Eberhart Herrmann, Asiatische Teppich-Und Textilkunst, Band 4, Munich, 1992, pp.106-7, no.47). A similarly woven blue ground rug, dated AH 1277/1860 AD, was sold in these Rooms, 8 October, 2009, lot 23.