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EXCEPTIONAL, IMPORTANT AND RARE KAZAK KARATCHOFF
Wool velvet on wool foundation. Turquoise field decorated with reserves and compartments of starry flowers, tarantulas and crabs stylized geometrically in polychrome symmetry framing a large central octagonal ivory medallion inlaid with a second crenellated brick medallion with stylized hooks and motifs recalling those of the stylized reserves. Beautiful balance of two stylized trees in the form of skeletons and fishbones in symmetry. Beige main border decorated with rows of crabs, hunters' arrows and stylized spearheads.
Caucasus, late 19th century.
Dimensions: 302 x 168 cm
(Maintenance restorations. Some natural oxidation. Beautiful polychromy)
Bibliography: Ulrich Schurman, Doris Eider, Albert Achdjian, Roger Bechirian, Robert de Calatchi, Armen Engeldian.
Wool velvet on wool foundation. Turquoise field decorated with reserves and compartments of starry flowers, tarantulas and crabs stylized geometrically in polychrome symmetry framing a large central octagonal ivory medallion inlaid with a second crenellated brick medallion with stylized hooks and motifs recalling those of the stylized reserves. Beautiful balance of two stylized trees in the form of skeletons and fishbones in symmetry. Beige main border decorated with rows of crabs, hunters' arrows and stylized spearheads.
Caucasus, late 19th century.
Dimensions: 302 x 168 cm
(Maintenance restorations. Some natural oxidation. Beautiful polychromy)
Bibliography: Ulrich Schurman, Doris Eider, Albert Achdjian, Roger Bechirian, Robert de Calatchi, Armen Engeldian.