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Lot Essay
The 'Pinwheel' Kazak has for a long time been one of the most collectable and immediately recognisable of all Caucasian nineteenth century rugs. The arrangement of the field of the present rug shows little variation from other examples, displaying off-set columns of ivory and pale yellow rosettes alternately enclosed within indigo rotating hooks and linked by abstract green 'dragons' filled with minor inverted 'C'-motifs representing the scales on the body.
The border of the present rug, more commonly associated with Borjalou weavings, diverges from the typical angular arrangement of lozenges alternating with paired inverted hooked brackets. For comparable rugs displaying classic 'Pinwheel' field designs and Bordjalou variant borders see, Eberhart Herrmann, Seltene Orientteppiche III, von Konya bis Kokand, Munich, 1981, p.67, no.21 and Sotheby’s, London, 27 April, 1994, published in HALI, June-July 1994, no.75, p.128.
The border of the present rug, more commonly associated with Borjalou weavings, diverges from the typical angular arrangement of lozenges alternating with paired inverted hooked brackets. For comparable rugs displaying classic 'Pinwheel' field designs and Bordjalou variant borders see, Eberhart Herrmann, Seltene Orientteppiche III, von Konya bis Kokand, Munich, 1981, p.67, no.21 and Sotheby’s, London, 27 April, 1994, published in HALI, June-July 1994, no.75, p.128.