Lot Essay
The form of this Kazak rug with its three gabled medallions in a sparsely scattered field is very archaic, deriving from an 18th century prototype such as that sold in these Rooms, 13 June 1983, lot 69, subsequently published by Herrmann, E.: Seltene Orientteppiche V, Munich, 1983, no.21, pp.48-9). Other related examples are published by Herrmann, E.: Seltene Orientteppiche VI, Munich, 1984, no.20, pp.70-71, a rug which is now in the Kirchheim Collection (Kirchheim, E. Heinrich : Orient Stars, a carpet Collection, Stuttgart and London, 1993, p.40), from the Textile Museum, Washington Collection (HALI, 48, December 1989, p.23), and in Grote-Hasenbalg, W.: Der Orientteppich, seine Geschichte und seine Kultur, Berlin, 1922, Vol.1, pl.X).