Brian MacDonald Antique Rugs & Carpets has dated this piece to the 1870s.
Made in the Chondzoresk area of Karabagh sometime in the third quarter nineteenth century, the rug has a wealth of symbolism throughout, including the large, curvilinear dragons in both the dark-green gul and dark-blue gul. Swastikas fill the centre of each gul as protective symbols, ironically breaking evil into four parts, stylised 'birds-heads' lozenges are seen as well as 'eight-pointed stars', stylised birds and animals, amulets for protection and in the lower right-hand corner, a man on horseback.
This is knotted tribal art at its best, a rug that you would never get tired of looking at it!
Size: 2.70m x 1.53m (8' 10" x 5' 0").
Brian MacDonald Antique Rugs & Carpets has dated this piece to the 1870s.
Dealing in antique and old tribal rugs, dowry weavings and decorative carpets from the near east and central asia since 1979.
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