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Lot: 195
Kuba This small-format Kuba with a hexagonal lattice design on a dark blue
field enclosing flowering plants, and a green main border showing a white
pseudo kufi vine, was woven in 1856. Repeated twice, the date (1272 in the
Islamic calendar) is inscribed in two boxes, one white and one red, placed
on top of one another at the top right. – Very good condition with the pile
at its original height, one small rewoven area in the bottom left-hand
corner.
Origin: East Caucasus
Size: 150 x 126 cm
Age: Dated 1856
Estimate: 9900 €
Rippon Boswell Major Spring Auction
Auction date: Saturday 23. May 2009 at 03 PM
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