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Antique Double Niche Geometric Design Armenian Caucasian Kazak Rug Dated 1895
Located in Milan, IT
An antique southwest Caucasian rug, belonging to the prestigious family of weavings known as Kazak. These are characteristically distinguished by abstract geometric patterns originat...
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Antique Late 19th Century Armenian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Vintage Room Size Blue Ground Caucasian Shirvan Rug with All-Over Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The last quarter of the 20th century has witnessed the revival of many of the most representative types of antique oriental rugs. The government of Russian Azerbaijan initiated a ser...
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Vintage 1970s Azerbaijani Bakshaish Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Large Size Caucasian Shirvan Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A finely knotted antique Caucasian Shirvan rug, distinguished by a rare large size. The pattern is composed of a series of five interconnected hexagonal devices with a stepped outlin...
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Early 20th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Mint Condition Caucasian Armenian Kazak Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An exquisite antique southwest Caucasian rug, belonging to the prestigious family of weavings known as Kazak. These are characteristically distinguished by abstract geometric pattern...
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Early 20th Century Armenian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Square Size Large Scale All-Over Pattern Heriz Serapi Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven Heriz of the Serapi kind, distinguished by an infinite repeat network of large scale, stylised leaves and palmettes on a terracotta red background. A very rare fe...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Heriz Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Tabriz Medallion Rug on a Soft Terracotta and Baby Blue Background
Located in Milan, IT
The revival of the Persian carpet tradition took place during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, guided principally by the Tabriz merchants, who developed what was basically...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Shirvan Rug with Stylised Animals and People
Located in Milan, IT
A charming indigo ground antique Shirvan rug, decorated by a central totemic-like element composed of an alternation of white and light blue hooked motif, flanked by a dense array of...
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Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Fine Senneh Rug with Herati Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A fine Senneh rug characterised by a medallion and pendants pattern, this placed within an ivory cartouche layered over a blue background. The composition is completely filled by the...
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Antique Early 1900s Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Caucasian Shirvan Rug with Shield Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A fine antique Shirvan rug, from the northeast Caucasus, distinguished by a directional all-over pattern of small shield-like elements. The honeycomb arrangement of this motif allows...
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Early 20th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Oversize Vintage Cream Ground Kirman Rug with Paisley Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
Very finely knotted with lustrous wool, this exquisite cream ground Kirman workshop carpet is decorated by an infinite repeat pattern of stylised boteh palmettes, a botanical motif o...
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Vintage 1940s Azerbaijani Kirman Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Ziegler Sultanabad Rug with Large Scale Scrolling Palmettes
By Ziegler & Co.
Located in Milan, IT
The carpets woven by the Anglo-Swiss firm of Ziegler & Co. during the late nineteenth century in the region of Arak are often characterised by classic Persian patterns rendered in hi...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Sultanabad Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Ziegler Sultanabad Rug with Pointillist Design
By Ziegler & Co.
Located in Milan, IT
Ziegler & Co., an Anglo-Swiss firm, wove this antique Ziegler carpet in the late 19th century near Arak. Artisans masterfully dyed wool yarns to create an almost translucent effect, ...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Sultanabad Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Halvei Bidjar Rug with Pastel Colours
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Bidjars are among the most refined weavings from the Near East, as they are in perfect balance between the classical botanical design tradition and the geometric renditions c...
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Antique Late 19th Century Azerbaijani Heriz Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Rust Red Heriz Rug with All-Over Design of Stylised Leafs and Palmettes
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Heriz rugs are among the most sought after decorative weavings, especially because they combine beautifully stylised Persianate patterns with colours that are closer to Weste...
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Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Rust Red Heriz Rug with All-Over Design
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Heriz rugs are among the most sought after decorative weavings, especially because they combine beautifully stylised Persianate patterns with colours that are closer to Weste...
Category
Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Caucasian Geometric All-Over Shield Design Sumak Rug
Located in Milan, IT
During the 1980's there was a great resurgence of interest towards antique weavings. This prompted many innovations in the development of contemporary carpets, paying close attention...
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Vintage 1980s Azerbaijani Sumak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Caucasian Geometric All-Over Shield Design Sumak Rug
Located in Milan, IT
During the 1980's there was a great resurgence of interest towards antique weavings. This prompted many innovations in the development of contemporary carpets, paying close attention...
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Vintage 1980s Azerbaijani Sumak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Caucasian Geometric Design Sumak Rug with Lesghi Stars
Located in Milan, IT
During the 1980's there was a great resurgence of interest towards antique weavings. This prompted many innovations in the development of contemporary carpets, paying close attention...
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Vintage 1980s Azerbaijani Sumak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Caucasian Geometric Design Sumak Rug
Located in Milan, IT
During the 1980's there was a great resurgence of interest towards antique weavings. This prompted many innovations in the development of contemporary carpets, paying close attention...
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Vintage 1980s Azerbaijani Sumak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Soft Yellow and Salmon Pink Scatter Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A finely knotted antique scatter sized rug, woven in soft pastel shades, distinguished by a medallion and pendants design in light grey floating on a delicate yellow ground with acce...
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Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Sarouk Farahan Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Caucasian Zeikhur Rug with Rare Teal Green Background
Located in Milan, IT
A fine and rare antique Caucasian Zeikhur rug, distinguished by a fairly unique teal green background onto which are layered two red large medallions with abstract zoomorphic element...
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Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Caucasian Zakatala Square Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The group of weavings known as Zakatala has been been discovered only in recent times by the rug world. The fall of the Soviet Russia has meant an opening of frontiers which enabled ...
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Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Kazak Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Spectacular Manhattan Skyline Antique Tribal Tacheh Rug or Hanging
Located in Milan, IT
A truly spectacular and complete, opened tacheh weaving from the proto-Iranic Bakhtiari tribe. Tachehs are large saddlebags used for the storage and transport of wheat. These are alm...
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Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Tribal Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Rare Size White Ground Sarab Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The pattern here is taken almost verbatim from that of the earlier Heriz Serapi rugs, with its dramatic pink medallion and pendants contrasting efficiently against the ivory backgrou...
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Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Heriz Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique White Ground All-Over Design Lavar Kerman Rug in Rare Size
Located in Milan, IT
Sometimes referred to as Kermanshah in the trade, rugs of this type are the finest nineteenth-century workshop weavings from the city of Kerman. Exquisitely woven using the softest q...
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Antique 1880s Azerbaijani Khorassan Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Rare Senneh Large Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The fine rugs of Senneh prominently represent the most luxurious weavings of the Qajar era. These are almost invariably woven in small formats, which is what makes this charming room...
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Antique 1880s Azerbaijani Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Ivory Background Antique Tabriz Benlian Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Rugs of this type were commissioned by the Armenian-British Benlian company, which had a workshop active in Tabriz during the first half of the 20th Century specialising in weaving c...
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Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Large Square Size Heriz Serapi Rug with Pastel Colours
Located in Milan, IT
The antique carpets from the Heriz area which are given the name ‘Serapi’ typically have a very finely knotted lustrous pile and are dyed in a range of natural hues, masterfully blen...
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Antique 1870s Azerbaijani Serapi Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Room Size Antique Minimalist Open Field Monochrome Mocha Brown Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The composition of this very rare antique minimalist flat-weave takes place on three panels, woven separately on narrow tribal looms and then stitched together in order to create the...
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Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Minimalist Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Textural Wool Room Size Modernist Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual room-size wool flat-weave, most probably commissioned for the European market during the post-war years, distinguished by a textural interlace of wool threads in n...
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Mid-20th Century Azerbaijani Mid-Century Modern Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Outstanding Antique Tabriz Hadji Jalili Workshop Rug in Butterscotch and Teal
By Hadji Jalili
Located in Milan, IT
Very rarely can one ascribe a carpet to the near mythical Hadji Jalili workshop with a relative degree of certainty, especially as these were never signed or embellished by any sort ...
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Antique 1870s Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Outstanding Sky Blue Antique Bakshaish Carpet with Sun Yellow Central Diamond
Located in Milan, IT
The subtly changing sky-blue background of this fascinating carpet, obtained by means of a number of colour gradations, creates the impression of a sea on which floats a sun-like loz...
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Antique 1870s Azerbaijani Bakshaish Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Sarab Camel Hair Rug with Paisleys and Dotted Motifs
Located in Milan, IT
Carpets originating from the Azerbaijani town of Sarab are quite rare. They are characterised by an elongated format and a camel background, which is decorated with geometric motifs....
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Antique 1870s Azerbaijani Bakshaish Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Dramatic Bakhshaish Rug with Animal Pelt Design
Located in Milan, IT
The zoomorphic origin of this particular design can be seen in the pair of stylised dragons that flank the corners of the inner star octagon, as well as in the animal pelt motif cont...
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Antique 1850s Azerbaijani Bakshaish Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Caucasian Geometric Minimalist Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A beautiful antique wool flat-weave from the Shahsavan tribe located in the southern Caucasus. Distinguished by a sparse decoration composed by a totemic motif, which transverses the...
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Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Kilim Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Black Ground Qarabagh Blossom Long Rug in the St. Petersburg Style
Located in Milan, IT
This elegant floral runner belongs to a rare subgroup of early rugs from the Qarabagh Khanate, ornated by motifs inspired by French Savonnerie and Aubusson carpets. During the ninete...
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Antique 1850s Caucasian Bessarabian Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Aubergine Purple Ground Minimalist Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A prime example of woven minimalism, the wool flat-weave being composed of three joined panels, each containing a plethora of striations of eggplant purple in different tonalities. T...
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Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Minimalist Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Blue Ground Qarabagh Kelleh Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Known in the old rug literature as ‘Gentleman’s carpets’, Qarabagh long rugs such as this one represent a classic late nineteenth century type which became quite popular in the West, especially because of its traditional kelleh format, in which the length is almost exactly twice of the width of the rug.. These soon became synonymous of great understated elegance and are still coveted for its 'Old World' feeling. The minute repeat...
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Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Caucasian Floral Qarabagh Rug in the St. Petersburg Style
Located in Milan, IT
The floral ornamentation typical of French and English carpets of the 18th-19th century has influenced specific oriental carpet families. In the Caucasus this style became extremely ...
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Vintage 1930s Russian Bessarabian Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique All-Over Pattern Botanical Design Tabriz Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An antique fine Tabriz rug distinguished by a light rose background embellished by a botanical all-over pattern, framed by a wide white ground border. Rugs of this type were woven in...
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Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
18th Century Caucasian Carpet with Harshang Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
An extremely rare and early Caucasian carpet from present day Armenia ornate by an infinite repeat pattern of palmettes alternated to split-leaf arabesques known also as the 'harshan...
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Antique 1760s Armenian Other Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Flat-Woven Azeri Shaddah Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A finely woven wool flat-weave from the Azeri tribe in Armenia, located in the southern Caucasus, distinguished by a tartan-like composition of polychrome vertical bands with a zig-z...
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Early 20th Century Armenian Tribal Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Azeri Shadda Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A finely woven wool flat-weave from the Azeri tribe in the southern Caucasus, distinguished by a tartan-like composition of polychrome vertical bands alternated to lozenges. This typ...
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Early 20th Century Russian Kilim Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
