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A DAGHESTAN PRAYER RUG
NORTH EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880
Price Realized £3,346 ($6,013)
Sale Information
Christie's Sale 6941
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
14 October 2004
London, King Street
Lot Description
88-A DAGHESTAN PRAYER RUG
NORTH EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880
The ivory field with an overall serrated leaf lattice containing individual
polychrome floral sprays beneath an ivory mihrab containing similar lattice
design scattered with minor S- and geometric motifs, in a rust-red hooked
scrolling S-motif border between charcoal-brown S-motif and polychrome
flowerhead stripes and mill-pattern minor stripes, good pile throughout,
natural corrosion in the brown, minute spots of repiling in outer stripe at
one end, small patch reweave in central field
4ft.10in. x 4ft.1in. (148cm. x 124cm.)
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