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AH 1259 (1843 AD) dated antique Shirvan Kabistan prayer rug, Southern Shirvan Region, Azerbaijan. |
LOT 36 A SHIRVAN PRAYER RUG, EAST CAUCASUS approximately 4ft. 3in. by 3ft. 5in. (1.29 by 1.04m.) dated 1289 (1872) ESTIMATE 10,000-15,000 USD CATALOGUE NOTERelated finely woven rugs with a similar delicate trellis enclosing a variety of blossoms beneath a squared arch on an ivory ground and dating to the 1870s include a rug now in the Textile Museum, see Jerome Straka and Louise Mackie, eds., The Oriental Rug Collection of Jerome and Mary Jane Straka, Washington, D.C., 1979, pl. 106; one sold Sotheby's New York, 1 April 2003, lot 31; another advertised in Hali, issue 68, p. 11; a rug offered at Rippon Boswell & Co., 23 May 2009, lot 141 and one sold recently, Sotheby's New York, 10 June 2009, lot 40. Sotheby's Carpets |
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