Antique Derbend prayer rug with a white-ground prayer rug with a hexagonal lattice design containing flowering shrubs

Lot: 131
Daghestan Prayer Rug A white-ground prayer rug with a hexagonal lattice design containing flowering shrubs. The wide, mid blue mihrab is decorated with small stepped polygons. The red main border contains abstract birds stylised to `S´ forms. – Original finishes all around, uniformly low pile.
Origin: North East Caucasus
Size: 149 x 112 cm
Age: Second half 19th century
Estimate: 3.800,00 €

Catalogue: Major Autumn Auction
Rippon Boswell
Auction date: Saturday 05. December 2009 at 03 PM