Antique Caucasian rug with a pair of birds motif in a brown ground


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Antique Caucasian rug with a pair of birds motif in a brown ground, North East Azerbaijan

Code: WKPB022

Age: circa 1870-80

Size: 115 x 200 cm

Size (ft): 4'0"x6'6"

Structure: wool pile, ivory wool warps and light red wool wefts.

Knots: Gördes (Turkish, symmetrical)

Condition: Good condition. Slightly oxidized blacks in some areas. All beautiful natural colors.

Description: This rug belongs to a subdivision of a group of North East Azerbaijan carpets with "latticed field and stylized bird motifs", woven from the early 19th century to the 1880s. Brown ground examples were produced in very small quantities.

CF: 1) Rippon Boswell, 25 November 2017, lot 157 (sold 4920 euros) 2) Dennis Dodds Collection, brown ground Kuba rug 3) "Bilderbuch für Teppichsammler". Mit einem Vorwort von Kurt Erdmann. 50 farbige Wiedergaben bisher nicht veröffentlicher antiker Orienteppiche.
by Schürmann Ulrich, Plate 40. Dated by Schürmann to the 18th century

A pair of birds motif

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