AZERBAIJAN, 19TH CENTURY

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A KURDISH PRAYER KILIM
AZERBAIJAN, 19TH CENTURY
A repaired split, a couple of surface marks, overall very good condition
5ft.8in. x 3ft.10in. (173cm. x 117cm.)

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Lot Essay

This rare kilim is woven in a prayer format with a midnight blue mihrab filled with dazzling polychrome stepped lozenges. Only very few Kurdish kilims of this format are known, including a closely comparable example offered at Rippon Boswell, 25 May 2013, lot 173.

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