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Major Autumn Auction
Auction date: Saturday 04. December 2010 at 15 o'clock
Rippon Boswell & Co.
International Auctioneers of Rare Carpets & Textiles
Lot: 232
Marasali Prayer Rug: This prayer rug from the Shirvan region, with a
brilliant golden-yellow ground and a diamond lattice design in which angular botehs form diamonds arranged in colour diagonals, belongs to the Marasali
group. Published comparative pieces, among which the example in the Straka
Collection of the Washington Textile Museum is probably the best known, are
largely identical. Original selvedges, the upper kilim finish survives,
minimally reduced at the bottom. Uniformly low pile, several stains.
Origin: East Caucasus, Shirvan region
Dimensions: 146 x 113 cm
Age: Late 19th century
Estimate: 3,800.00 €
Literature: STRAKA, JEROME A. (ed.), The Oriental Rug Collection of Jerome
and Mary Jane Straka. 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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