Lot Essay
This extraordinary long rug combines many features which are usually associated with the village of Talish, (the plain field and border composed of large rosettes), with a colour scheme and soft fleecy wool which are completely atypical. The wool in particular is reminiscent of that sometimes found in rugs from Gendje, where there is also to be found a related design (Spuhler, F., König, H. and Volkmann, M.: Alte Orientteppiche: Meisterstcke aus deutschen Privatsammlungen, Munich, 1978, no.57, pp.144-5, also Herrmann, E.: Seltene Orientteppiche VII, Munich, 1985, pp.54-5). There is also a rug similar to that offered here, albeit somewhat stiffer in drawing and with less unusual colouring, which is attributed by Herrmann to Talish (Herrmann, E.: Seltene Orientteppiche VI, Munich, 1984, no.31, pp.92-3). In his caption to the latter piece, Herrmann quotes a similar example bearing the date of AH 1252 (1835-6 AD).