Antique Kazak Rug
N°
00636
Period
Circa 1880
Origin
Southwest Caucasus
Materials
Wool
Status
Sold
Size
193 cm x 122 cm6'4" x 4'0"
Although many Caucasian rugs possess distinguishing features which make it belong to a specific group of weavings, others lack such features and cannot be accurately ascribed to a type or area. As with this yellow ground Kazak rug, embellished by parallel rows of Memling guls and by stacked polychrome branches of animal heads, as if guarding the central composition. Rugs of this type have sometimes been ascribed to the Kurdish enclaves of southern Caucasus, although there is no direct evidence for such an attribution.