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CHRISTIE'S KHYRDAGUL CHI CHI PRAYER RUG, AZERBAIJAN, KUBA REGION Price Realized £4,541 ($8,160) Sale Information Sale 6941 oriental rugs and carpets 14 October 2004 London, King Street Lot Description A CHICHI PRAYER RUG EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880 The dusty blue field densely filled with angular floral and geometric motifs supporting a similar dusty blue mihrab arch filled with further geometric motifs, in a shaded celadon-green stylised flowerhead and angular leaf border between charcoal-black carnation spray stripes and narrow zigzag and lemon-yellow spiralling ribbon minor stripes, low even wear throughout, minute cobbled repairs in the outer stripe 4ft.6in. x 4ft.2in. (138cm. x 126cm.)