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Major Spring Auction
Auction date: Saturday 25. May 2013 at 15 o'clock
Rippon Boswell & Co. International Auctioneers of Rare Carpets & Textiles
Lot: 80
Kazak: This elongated Kazak displays five large Memling güls in the green,
heavily abrashed field, its inner sides decorated with halved, red hooked
diamonds. Two reciprocal trefoil borders accompany the main border, which
shows diamonds in the vertical bands and diagonal cruciform flowers in the
horizontal bands. – Signs of age and wear, several creases. The sides are
damaged and in need of repair; remains of the original kilim finishes
survive at both ends. The corroded black-brown sections have been partially
rewoven.
Origin: South West Caucasus
Dimensions: 277 x 126 cm
Age: Late 19th century
Estimate: 5,600.00 ˆ
Literature: BAUSBACK, PETER, Antike orientalische Knüpfkunst. Mannheim 1976,
pl. p. 47
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