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Antique Caucasian Rug - Rare Caucasian Carpet, Caucasus Rug, Antique Rug
$46,000
£34,770.68
€39,883.41
CA$64,125.89
A$69,806.26
CHF 37,053.19
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SEK 430,207.84
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Rare Caucasian Rug Caucasus Rug
Size: 176×224 cm
This wonderful rug is a formerly unpublished addition to a small and rare group of blue-ground Caucasian rugs whose design is dominated by a prominent decahedral gabled ivory medallion. The overall pattern echoes that of a group of earlier 17th and 18th century north west Persian carpets, whose designs were based upon the Persian garden plan known as the “Four Gardens” or Chahar Bagh (M.S.Dimand
J. Mailey, Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, p.84, fig.116). The smaller lozenges that extend above and below the central medallion on the present lot, are linked by a narrow vertical channel which represents the streams and ornamental pools that feed the flowering trees and shrubs on either side. The once eight-pointed medallion, that is an archaic form found in early Anatolian and Caucasian rugs, and which continues to be used throughout the nineteenth century in Fachralo rugs, here has been simplified to just six points. Further more, the formerly square compartments filled with trees, are replaced here with “Memling” guls, most commonly associated with the weavings from the Moghan district in the Caucasus.
The motif that remains open to interpretation however, is the zoomorphic form within each corner of the ivory medallion. Although they resemble four-legged animals with a blunt hammer-head, it is more probable that these heavily abstracted forms represent the branched fruiting trees, that became increasingly geometric in form in the ‘Garden’ carpets woven in the latter years of the 18th century.
Eight other examples have been published, one in the Rudnick Collection, which is dated and most likely reads 1833 (J. Bailey and M. Hopkins, Through the Collector’s Eye – Oriental Carpets from New England Private Collections, Providence Rhode Island 1991, p.66, no.20); one by E. Gans-Ruedin, Caucasian Carpets, New York, 1986, pl.118, two by Eberhart Herrmann; the first dated to either 1844 or 1850 (E. Herrmann, Seltene Orienteppiche IV, Munich, 1982, p.152, no.46 and Herrmann, Kaukasische Teppichkunst Im 19. Jahrhundert Ein Bilderbuch, Munich 1993, p.61, pl.45); one of slightly shortened proportions by Ian Bennett, (Bennett, Oriental Rugs, Volume I Caucasian, London, 1981, p.79, no.66), two examples that sold at auction in the same week; Sotheby’s London, 28 April 1993, lot 16 and Christie’s London, 29 April 1993, lot 357, and the most recent to appear on the market which sold in these Rooms, 26 October 2017, lot 313. The Gans-Ruedin and Bennett examples, display two columns of double ‘Memling’ guls above and below the central medallion while the others all have three.
Apart from the Rudnick example which has a ‘Shield’ border, all of the other rugs share the same border pattern that consists of a series of small hexagons enclosing a large ‘S’ motif, with every other hexagon set within paired double-ended zoomorphs. The origin of this design stems from earlier Caucasian ‘Dragon’ carpets, and is almost identical to that of an eighteenth century east Caucasian rug, formerly in the collection of the late Peter Lehmann-Bärenklau, which sold in these Rooms, 19 April 2016, lot 20. The border is most frequently flanked by white ground guard stripes which display small flowerheads with a further inner frame of small space-invader motifs. Unique to the group, the present lot has an arrangement of small alternating yellow and ivory flower heads forming an additional frame within the central field which also sees the inclusion of two human figures flanking the central medallion.
- Dimensions:Width: 69.3 in (176 cm)Length: 88.19 in (224 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1800 s
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- Seller Location:Sultanahmet, TR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU7849238014192
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