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A 'PINWHEEL' KAZAK RUG
SOUTH CAUCASUS, CIRCA 1880
Full, thick pile throughout, minor repiling, a small reweave to one corner, overall green 'dragons' filled with minor inverted 'C'-motifs representing the scales
very good condition on the body.
8ft.2in. x 4ft.9in. (251cm. x 145cm.)
The border of the present rug, more commonly associated with Borjalou
£8,000-12,000 US$12,000-17,000 weavings, diverges from the typical angular arrangement of lozenges
€9,300-14,000
alternating with paired inverted hooked brackets. For comparable rugs
The 'Pinwheel' Kazak has for a long time been one of the most collectable displaying classic 'Pinwheel' field designs and Bordjalou variant borders see,
and immediately recognisable of all Caucasian nineteenth century rugs. Eberhart Herrmann, Seltene Orientteppiche III, von Konya bis Kokand, Munich,
The arrangement of the field of the present rug shows little variation from 1981, p.67, no.21 and Sotheby’s, London, 27 April, 1994, published in HALI,
other examples, displaying off-set columns of ivory and pale yellow rosettes June-July 1994, no.75, p.128.
alternately enclosed within indigo rotating hooks and linked by abstract
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