EAST CAUCASUS, 18TH CENTURY

细节

A KUBA KELLEGI (RUNNER)
East Caucasus, 18th century
The shaded medium blue field of harshang design with alternately facing palmettes issuing angular vine around a column of linked radiating palmettes together with flowerheads issuing flowering palmettes, in a golden yellow border of linked S-motifs and stylised flowering vine meander together with arrowheads between reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes, ends rewoven, slight tinting and localised wear
12ft.8in. x 3ft.10in. (387cm. x 117cm.)

出版

Burns, James D.: The Caucasus, Traditions in Weaving, Seattle, 1987, no.4.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍场告示

This rug is reduced in length at one end.

拍品专文

While there are a number of examples of Karabagh main carpets and kellehs of harshang design, it is very rare to find one woven kellegi, the side panels in a triclinium arrangement. A very similar piece, but probably of slightly later date, was in a private Basel Collection (Hali vol.3, no.1, 1980, p.64). One other runner of similar proportions but with yellow field was with Battilossi in Turin (Hali 49, February 1990, exhibition review, p.99).