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Antique Derbend rug with the ivory field containing a cornflower blue stepped lozenge

Daghestan Long rug.
Eastern Caucasian, circa 1920. The ivory field containing a cornflower blue stepped lozenge with hook forms on flowerheads in brown on pink framed by an ivory ground star form border, chocolate ground vine guard borders.
307 x 90 cm