Kuba Sumakh
Mid 19th century, 200 x 109 cm, East Caucasus
This rare small-format sumakh displays four complete medallions and one that is truncated by the upper border against a light red field ground. In formal terms, the large octagons decorated with outer hooks are reminiscent of the medallions in the much older, large-format Holbein carpets. Their interior drawing is an animal-tree motif projected onto the two-dimensional plane, a related form of which is encountered in Chajli rugs. A double bird’s head vine drawn on a black-brown ground frames the field. – Good condition.
BORALEVI, ALBERTO, Sumakh. Flat-Woven Carpets of the Caucasus. Florence 1986, no. 13 *** HERRMANN, EBERHART, Kaukasische Teppichkunst im 19. Jahrhundert. Munich 1993, no. 36
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Mid 19th century, 200 x 109 cm, East Caucasus
This rare small-format sumakh displays four complete medallions and one that is truncated by the upper border against a light red field ground. In formal terms, the large octagons decorated with outer hooks are reminiscent of the medallions in the much older, large-format Holbein carpets. Their interior drawing is an animal-tree motif projected onto the two-dimensional plane, a related form of which is encountered in Chajli rugs. A double bird’s head vine drawn on a black-brown ground frames the field. – Good condition.
BORALEVI, ALBERTO, Sumakh. Flat-Woven Carpets of the Caucasus. Florence 1986, no. 13 *** HERRMANN, EBERHART, Kaukasische Teppichkunst im 19. Jahrhundert. Munich 1993, no. 36
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