Live Auction 16219An Adventurous Spirit: An Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation
AN AZERBAIJAN RUG
Lot 60

AN AZERBAIJAN RUG

LATE 18TH CENTURY

Closed13 December 2018

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GBP 17,500

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AN AZERBAIJAN RUG
LATE 18TH CENTURY
The ruby-red field woven with a palmette and sickle leaf lattice, in a dark blue border with light blue linked arabesque cartouches and leafy rose-pink tendrils, reduced in length, areas of wear, some scattered repairs and reweaves
9 ft. 3 in. x 6 ft. 1 in. (285 x 186 cm.)

Estate of the Late Giuseppe Rossi, Sotheby's, London, 10-12 March, 1999, lot 1536, where acquired.

Specialist note

The design of the present rug is a later 18th century interpretation of an earlier 16th/17th century Persian palmette and sickle-leaf pattern, of which an earlier example of closely related design is illustrated by Kurt Erdmann, Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets, London, 1970, pl.XVIII.