EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880

A comparable example of this lesser known design, with the same mock-kufic border but with the addition of four octagonal minor guls to each corner of the field, is published in 'The Treasures of the Caucasus - Rugs from American Collections', Washington, 1993, pl.26. Another rug from the same group but with a serrated leaf and glass border was published by Eberhart Herrmann, Von Uschak Bis Yarkand, Munich, 1982, p.74, pl.39 and a further example with the same border in Ulrich Schurmann, Caucasian Rugs, Braunschweig, 1961, pp.208-9, pl.72.