Sale 9107
London, South Kensington
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23 May 2001
Price realised
GBP 940
Estimate
An antique Karabagh runner the abrashed deep indigo field with stylised Afshan design of various bold polychrome palmettes, delicate floral tendrils, rosettes and split palmettes, in narrow shaded blackcurrant-red floral meander border between barber-pole and plain stripes, small localized moth damage to the pile, slight wear, old repairs, slight localized loss at one end --396cm. x 217cm.(13ft. x 3ft.10in.)
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