Romanian Bessarabian Rug

This traditional hand-woven Romanian Bessarabian rug has an inviting beige field of sparse stylized floral sprays and blossoming vases, in a ...

This traditional hand-woven Romanian Bessarabian rug has a refined ivory overall field counterposed by delicate stylized floral bouquet issui...

This traditional handwoven Samarkand Khotan rug has a shaded fox-brown field scattered with auspicious symbols around an ivory central roundel, the key-pattern spandrels, in an ivory...

Inspired by traditional Turkish Oushak designs, this handwoven wool rug has a shaded brick red field enclosing a central column of three flourished diamonds, in a beige linked flower...

Antique Bessarabian Rugs / Kilims in both pile and tapestry weaving technique are some of the more beautiful carpets to have been produced in Europe. Many of the Bessarabian Kilims w...

Rare Caucasian Rug Caucasus Rug Size: 176×224 cm This wonderful rug is a formerly unpublished addition to a small and rare group of blue-ground Caucasian rugs whose design is dominated by a prominent decahedral gabled ivory medallion.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...

This handmade carpet handsome antique Caucasian rug is a phenomenal and truly archetypal example of regional orinetal rugs from the Azerbaijani village of Karakashly. This local vari...

The antique Caucasian rugs get their name from the area in which they were made – the Caucasus. The Caucasus is a region that produces distinctive rugs since the end of the 18th cent...