Antique Caucasian Khila rug, Baku region of the Eastern Caucasus. Circa 1890.

Antique East Caucasian Shirvan rug from the Baku region Circa 1900 A good small Shirvan rug with a three medallion design as found in the Baku region The abrashed soft red ground is...

Antique Caucasian Kuba rug from the village of Karagashli Circa 1900 The rug is a good example of this classic Caucasian design The indigo field with three boxes, snow flakes and an...

Size: 14ft 1in x 3ft 5in (430 x 104cm). Antique Caucasian Karabagh region runner with all over diagonal boteh design. Circa 1880. A very good runner with diagonal rows of flowerin...

An antique South Caucasian Karabagh region long rug with a vertical row of five octagons on a clear red ground. This is a truly outstanding example of Caucasian weaving. The wool qua...

A late 19th century antique Caucasian Baku Khila rug with 6-light green medallions (2 of the medallions are half full) on a light blue field surrounded by a ...

Classic black ground east Caucasian rug with three stepped octagon medallions and matching side and corner motives, with botehs behind and a diagonally striped border.

Rare Caucasian Rug Caucasus Rug Size: 176×224 cm This wonderful rug is a formerly unpublished addition to a small and rare group of blue-ground Caucasian rugs whose design is dominated by a prominent decahedral gabled ivory medallion. The overall pattern echoes that of a group of earlier 17th and 18th century north west Persian carpets, whose designs were based upon the Persian garden plan known as the “Four Gardens” or Chahar Bagh (M.S.Dimand & J. Mailey, Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, p.84, fig.116). The smaller lozenges that extend above and below the central medallion on the present lot, are linked by a narrow vertical channel which represents the streams and ornamental pools that feed the flowering trees and shrubs on either side. The once eight-pointed medallion, that is an archaic form found in early Anatolian and Caucasian rugs, and which continues to be used throughout the nineteenth century in Fachralo rugs...

A bold and handsome example of the Surahani Baku garden design, this rug was handwoven in the Caucasus mountains, perhaps in the east central region. With brilliant colors of red...