A KAZAK RUG
SOUTH CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880
Price Realized ($4,204)
Sale Information
Christie's
Sale 6715
oriental rugs and carpets
1 May 2003
London, King Street
Lot Description
A KAZAK RUG
South Caucasus, circa 1880
The shaded indigo field with scattered flowerheads and figural motifs around
a central column of serrated panels containing similar geometric motifs
flanked by paired polychrome cusped curling spandrels, in a sandy yellow
border of polychrome angular flowerheads between reciprocal ivory and brown
zigzag and narrow barber-pole minor stripes, natural corrosion in the brown
and black, even wear throughout, small repair at one end in outer border,
slight areas of repiling
6ft.4in. x 4ft.5in. (193cm. x 135cm.)
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