4’2″ x 6’3″ Karabagh; 1880, South Caucasus Karabagh is a district that to this day is hotly contested by the nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan. Its rugs often resemble their…
3’6″ x 6’1″ Perepedil Kuba; late 19th century, East Caucasus Perepedil is a town in the Eastern Caucasus. It is a famous type and well-illustrated in the literature. Bennett illustrates…
3’7″x5’4″ Yellow field Kuba rug; late 19th century, East Caucasus Kuba was an Islamic khanate that was incorporated into the Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century. …
4’3″x7’3″ Talish Rug, late 19th century, East Caucasus Generally fields of this type are devoid of design. This example exhibits an interlocking lattice in which we find eight pointed stars.
5’1″x7 Kazak; late 19th c., Caucasus Occasionally a rug displays design characteristics of different subtypes. That is the case here where the major border, and hexagonal ornaments in the field…
3’7″x4’6″ Seychour Kuba, c. 1900, Eastern Caucasus A famous East Caucasian type, this example illustrates its most iconic field ‘cross ‘design. In place of the usual ‘Georgian’ major border which…