A fine antique
Kuba Zejwa rug
Price Realized £1,469 ($2,119)
Sale Information
Christie's
Sale 8917
carpets, decorative objects, furniture and picture frames
25 October 2000
London, South Kensington
Lot Description
A fine antique Kuba-Shirvan rug: the shaded indigo field with two brick-red
and ivory stylised Zejwa medallions surrounded by hooked lozenges, small
rosettes and stepped panels, divided by pale yellow and ivory horizontal
long panels with various hooked bars, in broad ivory border of stylised
polychrome crab-rosette between shaded charcoal-black floral meander and
barber-pole stripes, braided ends -147cm. x 135cm.(4ft.10in. x 4ft.5in.)
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