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A "TREE" KAZAK RUG
SOUTH CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880
Price Realized £4,800 ($9,125)
Sale Information
Christie's Sale 7039
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
28 April 2005
London, King Street
Lot Description
A "TREE" KAZAK RUG
SOUTH CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880
The warm rust-red field scattered with minor polychrome panels containing
hooked motifs, palmettes and scattered minute lozenges around a central
column of fir-green and ivory angular tree formations, in a fir-green hooked
polychrome lozenge border between double zigzag stripes, localised areas of
light wear, naturally corroded brown, overall good condition
10ft.1in. x 3ft.8in. (307cm. x 112cm.)
Lot Notes
This distinctive group of Kazak rugs is more commonly designed with two
columns of three 'tree' motifs and nearly all are on a red ground. An
unusual single column green ground example appeared in these Rooms, 25
April, 2002, lot 5. For other single column examples please see Eberhart
Herrmann: Seltene Orientteppiche VII, 1985, no.22, pp.58-9;idem Seltene
Orientteppiche II, 1980, no.21, p.59; Hali 36, Oct.-Dec. 1987, auction price
guide, p.81, and Antique Oriental Carpets from Austrian Private Collections,
exhibition catalogue Vienna, 1986, no.47
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