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    Oriental Rugs and Carpets

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    29 April 2004

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    • A KARABAGH RUNNER
    Lot 56

    A KARABAGH RUNNER

    SOUTH CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880

    Price realised

    GBP 4,063

    Estimate

    GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000

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    A KARABAGH RUNNER
    SOUTH CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880
    The indigo field with herati pattern executed in a wide variety of colours around a concentric serrated blackcurrant-red and fir-green floral medallion, the ivory spandrels with flowerheads and angular green leaves, in a blackcurrant-red floral meander border between golden yellow and ivory meandering flowering vine and minor barber-pole stripes, a couple of spots of wear, minimal repair, corroded black, selvages replaced
    15ft.9in. x 3ft.6in. (480cm. x 107cm.)

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