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Christie's antique Kuba Syrt Chichi rug, Azerbaijan, circa 1890.


Price Realized $3,329
 

Sale Information
Sale 6030
carpets
15 October 1998
London, King Street


Lot Description
A CHICHI RUG
EAST CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1890
The shaded blue field with rows of three polychrome hooked lozenges flanked by paired leaves and surrounded by minor floral motifs, in a charcoal-grey rosette and baton border between brick-red polychrome flowerhead, light blue lozenge, reciprocal skittle-pattern and minor barber-pole stripes, slight loss and repairs at one end, minimal repaired moth damage
6ft. x 4ft. (183cm. x 122cm.)