ANTIQUE CAUCASIAN RUG

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from the region of Kuba in the eastern Caucasus, the village of Seichour. It dates from the early part of the last century and is in very good condition. Nicolas Fokker in his book ”Caucasian Rugs of Yesterday has a good history of Seichour and the development of rug weaving there. The deep cobalt blue shade used in the borders is illustrated as plate 323 in ”Oriental Rugs, Volume 1, Caucasian” by Dr. Ian Bennett. He places that example as being from the eastern Caucasus. Reference 3552. Size 141 x 107 cms., or 4ft. 8ins x 3ft. 6inches. Euros 1580

CLOSE UP OF THE BORDERS of another example in Dr. Bennett`s book which is very similar in colours to this piece and is placed as being from the Kuba region. Plate 329 refers.