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Antique Bakhtiari Tacheh Tribal Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Tacheh are saddle bags employed by the people of the Bakhtiari tribe. These are woven in wool by means of different techniques, which include interlock tapestry, dovetailing, weft fl...
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Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Tribal Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Mohtashem Kashan Rug Depicting the Annunciation
Located in Milan, IT
Finely knotted with lustrous kurk wool, this Mohtashem workshop Kashan rug depicts the Archangel Gabriel with the Madonna and Child with an attendant, dressed in the style of the Qaj...
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Antique 1880s Armenian Kashan Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Bakhtiari Tacheh Tribal Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Tacheh are saddle bags employed by the people of the Bakhtiari tribe. These are woven in wool by means of different techniques, which include interlock tapestry, dovetailing, weft fl...
Category
Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Tribal Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Aqua Blue Ziegler Sultanabad with Large Scale Strapwork Arabesques
Located in Milan, IT
One of the principal characteristics of Ziegler carpets can be seen in their particular treatment of colour, where the wool yarns are masterfully dyed so to create an almost transluc...
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Antique 1880s Azerbaijani Sultanabad Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Indigo Blue Open Field Shahsavan Pile Runner Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Shahsavan confederation of tribes is known especially for their flat-woven containers and trappings, which they wove entirely for their own use during the nomadic encampments. Th...
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Antique 1880s Azerbaijani Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique White Ground Sarab Garden Design Runner Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Garden carpets are among the most refined manifestations of textile art expressed by the 17th Century Safavid dynasty. During the nineteenth century, the pattern derived form the rep...
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Antique 1880s Azerbaijani Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Distressed Aqua Green Malayer Carpet with All-Over Herati Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Malayer carpets in the kelleh (long and narrow) format are among the most elegant woven in late nineteenth century. Rugs in this format were traditionally commissioned to dec...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Malayer Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Bakhtiari Tacheh Tribal Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Tacheh are wool saddle bags employed by the nomadic people of the Bakhtiari tribe. These were principally used for the storage and transport of wheat. This complete, opened example a...
Category
Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Tribal Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Soft Teal Green Bijar Oversize Carpet with All-Over Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A fine antique Bijar carpet, woven on a wool foundation, distinguished by a unique teal green background and decorated by an infinite repeat of the so-called bid majnun (weeping will...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Ziegler Sultanabad All-Over Design Rug with Terracotta Background
Located in Milan, IT
The Anglo-Swiss firm of Ziegler & Co. was active during the late nineteenth century in the Sultanabad region. These are typically characterised by classical patterns rendered in high...
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Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Sultanabad Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Camel Hair Hamadan Narrow Runner Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Pure woven poetry is what comes to mind when looking at this charming Hamadan village rug, with a camel wool background punctuated by an irregular repeat network of polychrome steppe...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Bakshaish Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Tribal Minimalist Jajim Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Jajims are flat-woven covers in wool used as blankets within the nomadic tent. These are constructed on the horizontal loom with the warp-faced plain weave. This technique was develo...
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Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Tribal Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Kamo Sofreh Kilim Rug with Zoroastrian Flame Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
Distinguished by a small, square format, sofrehs are utilitarian textiles employed when presenting food to guests. Each tribe and village has recognisable traits in their sofreh weav...
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Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Tribal Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Garrus Bijar Rug with Strapwork Split-Leaf Arabesques
Located in Milan, IT
The Garrus district is located in the southern tip of Azerbaijan, with Bijar being its capital. The oldest examples from this area are woven on an all wool foundation, and are orname...
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Antique 1870s Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Caucasian Kazak Rug with Repeating Geometric Devices
Located in Milan, IT
In this rare and unusual antique Kazak rug, the repeating hooked element in the field is related to the so-called 'animal-tree' motif, an ancient symbol at the origin of a good porti...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique White Ground Tabriz Benlian Carpet with Large Scale All-Over Design
Located in Milan, IT
This stunning antique Tabriz carpet, woven in the prestigious Benlian workshop, is distinguished by an ivory background layered with a large-scale all-over pattern of multicoloured s...
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Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Indigo Blue Fine Qarabagh Rug with All-Over Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A truly elegant rug, finely knotted in wool with a dark blue background (a shade extracted from the indigo plant), embellished by a filigree-like, infinite repeat pattern of Persiana...
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Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Malayer Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Mocha Brown Bakshaish All-Over Design Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The unusual, two-tone palette of this Bakshaish long rug sets this example apart from the group, as these typically show a more traditional colouration. The background is sparsely em...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Bakshaish Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Fachralo Kazak Rug with Totemic Hexagonal Devices and Birds
Located in Milan, IT
An authentic antique Caucasian Kazak rugs with a field pattern dominated by two large hexagonal devices that are typically seen on the niche design rugs attributed to the village of ...
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Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Blue and Coral Pink Senneh Rug with Medallion and Pendants
Located in Milan, IT
A fine Senneh rug characterised by a medallion and pendants pattern, this placed within an indigo blue cartouche layered over a coral pink background. The composition is completely f...
Category
Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Blue Ground Kurdish Kazak Long Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A beautiful antique Kurdish rug from the southern Caucasus, distinguished by its range of natural dyes, which include a rich indigo blue background, embellished by jewel-like tonalit...
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Early 20th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Ivory Senneh Rug with Herati Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely knotted antique Senneh rug characterised by a diamond-shaped medallion placed within an ivory cartouche layered over a indigo blue background. The composition is comple...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Fine Caucasian Shirvan Rug in Rare Large Format
Located in Milan, IT
Fine antique Shirvan rugs are among the most coveted rugs originating from the Caucasus region. These are very finely knotted and are typically found in very small formats. This exam...
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Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Caucasian Kazak Rug
Located in Milan, IT
By having its size previously adjusted, this antique Kazak rug displays an unusual two-medallion design. Here two emerald green polygonal devices dominate the terracotta background, ...
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Antique 1870s Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Blue Ground Kurdish Kazak Long Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A beautiful antique Kurdish rug from the southern Caucasus, distinguished by its range of natural dyes, which include a rich indigo blue background, embellished by jewel-like tonalit...
Category
Early 20th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Light Blue Fachralo Kazak Rug with Double Keyhole Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A very early example of Kazak rug, attributed to the village of Fachralo in the southwest Caucasus. It's characterised by a light blue central reserve containing a central ivory diam...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Caucasian Shirvan Rug
Located in Milan, IT
This particular motif is characteristic of a rare type of Shirvan rug, originating from the northeastern region of the Transcaucasus, close to the Caspian sea. The muted palette of t...
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Antique 1880s Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Blue Ground Kurdish Kazak Rug with Wide Geometric Border
Located in Milan, IT
A beautiful antique Kurdish rug from the southern Caucasus, distinguished by its range of natural dyes, which include a rich indigo blue background, embellished by jewel-like tonalit...
Category
Early 20th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Blue Ground Qarabagh Kelleh Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Known in the old rug literature as ‘Gentleman’s carpets’, Qarabagh long rugs such as this one represent a classic late nineteenth century type which became quite popular in the West,...
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Early 20th Century Caucasian Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Room Size Heriz Serapi Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The antique carpets from the Heriz area which are given the name ‘Serapi’ typically have a very finely knotted lustrous pile and are dyed in a range of natural hues, masterfully blen...
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Antique 1880s Azerbaijani Heriz Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Double Niche Geometric Design Armenian Caucasian Kazak Rug Dated 1895
Located in Milan, IT
An antique southwest Caucasian rug, belonging to the prestigious family of weavings known as Kazak. These are characteristically distinguished by abstract geometric patterns originat...
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Antique Late 19th Century Armenian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Vintage Room Size Blue Ground Caucasian Shirvan Rug with All-Over Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The last quarter of the 20th century has witnessed the revival of many of the most representative types of antique oriental rugs. The government of Russian Azerbaijan initiated a ser...
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Vintage 1970s Azerbaijani Bakshaish Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Large Size Caucasian Shirvan Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A finely knotted antique Caucasian Shirvan rug, distinguished by a rare large size. The pattern is composed of a series of five interconnected hexagonal devices with a stepped outlin...
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Early 20th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Mint Condition Caucasian Armenian Kazak Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An exquisite antique southwest Caucasian rug, belonging to the prestigious family of weavings known as Kazak. These are characteristically distinguished by abstract geometric pattern...
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Early 20th Century Armenian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Square Size Large Scale All-Over Pattern Heriz Serapi Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven Heriz of the Serapi kind, distinguished by an infinite repeat network of large scale, stylised leaves and palmettes on a terracotta red background. A very rare fe...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Heriz Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Tabriz Medallion Rug on a Soft Terracotta and Baby Blue Background
Located in Milan, IT
The revival of the Persian carpet tradition took place during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, guided principally by the Tabriz merchants, who developed what was basically...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Shirvan Rug with Stylised Animals and People
Located in Milan, IT
A charming indigo ground antique Shirvan rug, decorated by a central totemic-like element composed of an alternation of white and light blue hooked motif, flanked by a dense array of...
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Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Fine Senneh Rug with Herati Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A fine Senneh rug characterised by a medallion and pendants pattern, this placed within an ivory cartouche layered over a blue background. The composition is completely filled by the...
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Antique Early 1900s Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Caucasian Shirvan Rug with Shield Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A fine antique Shirvan rug, from the northeast Caucasus, distinguished by a directional all-over pattern of small shield-like elements. The honeycomb arrangement of this motif allows...
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Early 20th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Oversize Vintage Cream Ground Kirman Rug with Paisley Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
Very finely knotted with lustrous wool, this exquisite cream ground Kirman workshop carpet is decorated by an infinite repeat pattern of stylised boteh palmettes, a botanical motif o...
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Vintage 1940s Azerbaijani Kirman Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Ziegler Sultanabad Rug with Large Scale Scrolling Palmettes
By Ziegler
Co.
Located in Milan, IT
The carpets woven by the Anglo-Swiss firm of Ziegler & Co. during the late nineteenth century in the region of Arak are often characterised by classic Persian patterns rendered in hi...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Sultanabad Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Ziegler Sultanabad Rug with Pointillist Design
By Ziegler
Co.
Located in Milan, IT
Ziegler & Co., an Anglo-Swiss firm, wove this antique Ziegler carpet in the late 19th century near Arak. Artisans masterfully dyed wool yarns to create an almost translucent effect, ...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Sultanabad Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Halvei Bidjar Rug with Pastel Colours
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Bidjars are among the most refined weavings from the Near East, as they are in perfect balance between the classical botanical design tradition and the geometric renditions c...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Heriz Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Rust Red Heriz Rug with All-Over Design of Stylised Leafs and Palmettes
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Heriz rugs are among the most sought after decorative weavings, especially because they combine beautifully stylised Persianate patterns with colours that are closer to Weste...
Category
Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Rust Red Heriz Rug with All-Over Design
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Heriz rugs are among the most sought after decorative weavings, especially because they combine beautifully stylised Persianate patterns with colours that are closer to Weste...
Category
Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Caucasian Geometric All-Over Shield Design Sumak Rug
Located in Milan, IT
During the 1980's there was a great resurgence of interest towards antique weavings. This prompted many innovations in the development of contemporary carpets, paying close attention...
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Vintage 1980s Azerbaijani Sumak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Caucasian Geometric All-Over Shield Design Sumak Rug
Located in Milan, IT
During the 1980's there was a great resurgence of interest towards antique weavings. This prompted many innovations in the development of contemporary carpets, paying close attention...
Category
Vintage 1980s Azerbaijani Sumak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Caucasian Geometric Design Sumak Rug with Lesghi Stars
Located in Milan, IT
During the 1980's there was a great resurgence of interest towards antique weavings. This prompted many innovations in the development of contemporary carpets, paying close attention...
Category
Vintage 1980s Azerbaijani Sumak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Caucasian Geometric Design Sumak Rug
Located in Milan, IT
During the 1980's there was a great resurgence of interest towards antique weavings. This prompted many innovations in the development of contemporary carpets, paying close attention...
Category
Vintage 1980s Azerbaijani Sumak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Rare Early Antique Shirvan Akstafa Blue Caucasian Rug with Octagram Stars
Located in Milan, IT
An extremely fine and early Akstafa long rug, which is a specific type of Shirvan rug, distinguished by a sequence of star octagrams in alternating colours, set against a dark indigo...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Caucasian Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Soft Yellow and Salmon Pink Scatter Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A finely knotted antique scatter sized rug, woven in soft pastel shades, distinguished by a medallion and pendants design in light grey floating on a delicate yellow ground with acce...
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Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Sarouk Farahan Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Caucasian Zeikhur Rug with Rare Teal Green Background
Located in Milan, IT
A fine and rare antique Caucasian Zeikhur rug, distinguished by a fairly unique teal green background onto which are layered two red large medallions with abstract zoomorphic element...
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Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Caucasian Zakatala Square Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The group of weavings known as Zakatala has been been discovered only in recent times by the rug world. The fall of the Soviet Russia has meant an opening of frontiers which enabled ...
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Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Spectacular Manhattan Skyline Antique Tribal Tacheh Rug or Hanging
Located in Milan, IT
A truly spectacular and complete, opened tacheh weaving from the proto-Iranic Bakhtiari tribe. Tachehs are large saddlebags used for the storage and transport of wheat. These are alm...
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Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Tribal Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Rare Size White Ground Sarab Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The pattern here is taken almost verbatim from that of the earlier Heriz Serapi rugs, with its dramatic pink medallion and pendants contrasting efficiently against the ivory backgrou...
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Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Heriz Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique White Ground All-Over Design Lavar Kerman Rug in Rare Size
Located in Milan, IT
Sometimes referred to as Kermanshah in the trade, rugs of this type are the finest nineteenth-century workshop weavings from the city of Kerman. Exquisitely woven using the softest q...
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Antique 1880s Azerbaijani Khorassan Caucasian Rugs
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Wool
Fine Ivory Background Antique Tabriz Benlian Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Rugs of this type were commissioned by the Armenian-British Benlian company, which had a workshop active in Tabriz during the first half of the 20th Century specialising in weaving c...
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Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Large Square Size Heriz Serapi Rug with Pastel Colours
Located in Milan, IT
The antique carpets from the Heriz area which are given the name ‘Serapi’ typically have a very finely knotted lustrous pile and are dyed in a range of natural hues, masterfully blen...
Category
Antique 1870s Azerbaijani Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Room Size Antique Minimalist Open Field Monochrome Mocha Brown Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The composition of this very rare antique minimalist flat-weave takes place on three panels, woven separately on narrow tribal looms and then stitched together in order to create the...
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Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Minimalist Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Outstanding Antique Tabriz Hadji Jalili Workshop Rug in Butterscotch and Teal
By Hadji Jalili
Located in Milan, IT
Very rarely can one ascribe a carpet to the near mythical Hadji Jalili workshop with a relative degree of certainty, especially as these were never signed or embellished by any sort ...
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Antique 1870s Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
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Wool
