Fine Antique Caucasian Zeikhur Rug with Rare Teal Green Background

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...

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...

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 ...

Using a rare and highly successful white field, this exceptional Caucasian rug from eastern Azerbaijan draws rows of ornament associated both with the Chi-Chi subgroup as well as wit...

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...

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...

An antique Seychour rug, South Caucasus. The charcoal-black field with overall diagonal rows of stylized multicolored bold and serrated floral boteh. In the sandy-yellow border of stylized polychrome...

This antique Caucasian Shirvan tribal rug is from Azerbaijan, a country located in the south Caucasus region. It is constructed of 100% handspun wool and natural dyes. This rug featu...

Antique Caucasian Fine Shirvan Rug in Ivory Background & Multi Colors. Country of Origin: Caucasus; Type: Shirvan; Design: All-Over, Geometric, Crest; Keivan Woven Arts: rug 13-0802;...

This antique Caucasian rug named Seychour (Zeikhur) measuring 322 × 156 cm (10' 6" × 5' 1") was hand knotted around 1900 with woolen fleece on cotton warp and weft. Zeikhur or Seikhur is a locality near the Caspian Sea north of the Kuba Territory. Kalleh refers to the format, approx. 150–200cm (59'–79') x 300–600cm (120'–240'). This format is traditionally placed at the head of a ghali (kalleh means "head" in Persian), which is a large carpet. The St. Andrew's cross decoration...

Rare Caucasian Rug Caucasus Rug Size: 176×224 cm This wonderful rug is a formerly unpublished addition to a small and rare group of blue-ground Caucasian rugs whose design is dominated by a prominent decahedral gabled ivory medallion.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...

Antique Caucasian Shirvan Rug in Yellow Background Rug #L11-0603, Antique Caucasian, Antique Shirvan An important late 19th Century Shirvan rug from the northeast Caucasus region. The rare and highly prized yellow field is deeply saturated and decorated with various heavily stylized flowers and geometric forms. The navy blue “crab...