Sale 6897
London
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29 April 2004
Price realised
GBP 4,063
Estimate
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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