Lot Essay
An extremely similar rug, sold in these rooms 16th October 1997 as lot 31, showed many of the same minor motifs around the keel arch and had a very similar border. That rug was dated AH 1281/1865 AD. Further undated examples are published in Bausback, P.: The Old and Antique Oriental Art of Weaving, exhibition catalogue, Mannheim, 1983, pp.64-5, and Schrmann, U.: Caucasian Rugs, Munich, 1974, pl.124.