Lot Essay
A Karachopf rug of this particular sub-group using box medallions and red polygons but on a green field, was published by as early as 1922 by Werner Grote-Hasenbalg, Der Orientteppich. Seine Geschichte und seine Kultur, Berlin 1922, vol. 2, Pl.27. A comparable example on a blue ground with the same linked inverted C-bracket border sold in these Rooms, 3 May 2001, lot 20.