AN AKSTAFA PRAYER RUG
EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1890
Price Realized £9,600 ($18,250)
Sale Information
Christie's Sale 7039
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
28 April 2005
London, King Street
Lot Description
168-AN AKSTAFA PRAYER RUG
EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1890
The ivory field scattered with polychrome boteh and minor geometric motifs
beneath an ivory mihrab with similar boteh design, in a charcoal-black
linked polychrome angular motif border between reciprocal skittle-pattern
stripes and barber-pole minor stripes, full pile with a light corrosion in
the black, each end rewoven in the outer stripe, 5ft.6in. x 2ft.7in. (168cm.
x 79cm.) |
