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Antique Fachralo (original name - Fakhrali, Fakhraly) Kazak rug, Borchaly / Bordjalou Uyezd

 

A FACHRALO PRAYER RUG
SOUTH CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880

Enlarge Price Realized (Set Currency) Ј13,145 ($21,926)

EstimateЈ3,000 - Ј6,000 ($5,004 - $10,008)

Sale Information
Christies Sale 6815
oriental rugs and carpets
16 October 2003
London, King Street

Lot Description
A FACHRALO PRAYER RUG
South Caucasus, circa 1880
The tomato-red field scattered with hooked medallions, small boteh and polychrome panels around a central ivory gabled hooked medallion containing similar hooked motifs with a pale blue and tomato-red centre piece, a keel-arch above and below, in a serrated zigzag polychrome border between shaded blue and mill-pattern minor stripes, full pile throughout, natural corrosion in the black, small patch restoration in one corner 5ft.2in. x 4ft.2in. (157cm. x 127cm.)