Lot Essay
A Moghan rug that exhibits similar polychrome chequered lozenge interctices between the columns is published by Eberhart Herrmann, Asiatische Teppich- und Textilkunst 3, Munich, 1991, p.33, fig.12. A close comparable, formerly with James D. Burns, sold in these Rooms, 26 October 2023, lot 143. Published examples, narrower in width with only two columns of guls, include two others published by Peter Bausback, one in 1976 (Antike Orientalische Knupfkunst, Mannheim, 1976, p.112) and another in 1983 (The Old and Antique Oriental Art of Weaving, Mannheim, 1983, p.71).