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Major Spring Auction
Auction date: Saturday 23. May 2009 at 03 PM
Rippon Boswell & Co. International Auctioneers of Rare Carpets & Textiles
Lot: 129
Marasali Prayer Rug Attributed to the Marasali group, this prayer rug from
the Shirvan region has a brilliant golden-yellow field and a diamond lattice
design in which angular botehs form colour diagonals in relation to the
central axis. Published comparative pieces, of which the example in the
Straka Collection of the Washington Textile Museum is probably the best
known, are often identical as twins. – Completely preserved with original
finishes all around. Several horizontal creases, slight signs of wear in the
pile, sides in need of restoration.
Origin: East Caucasus
Size: 152 x 128 cm
Age: Second half 19th century
Estimate: 4.700,00 €
Literature: STRAKA, JEROME A. (ed.), The Oriental Rug Collection of Jerome
and Mary Jane Straka. (Exhibition catalogue Textile Museum) Washington, D.C.
1978, no. 103 *** BENARDOUT, RAYMOND, Woven Stars. Rugs And Textiles From
Southern California Collections. Los Angeles 1996, no. 11
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