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Antique Kuba Konagend Rug with classic design.
Beautiful and complex design on this piece Is reminiscent of night sky. Woven Ca. 1900.
5’7″ x 4’0″
Antique Kuba Konagend Rug with classic design
Caucasian rugs are defined by the place they were woven in. The Caucasus mountains. The Caucasus is a region that produces distinctive rugs since the beginning of the human civilization and the surviving examples are mostly from the 16th century onward and mostly from the 19th. and 20th. centuries. The antique
Caucasian rugs are primarily produced as village pieces rather than the fine and intricate city productions. Caucasian rugs are best known for featuring bold geometric and archaic designs in primary colors.
The rugs from the Caucasus mountains are primarily made of handspun wool and natural dyes that are particular to their tribal provinces and some of the styles that are “typical” or better known to the Caucasus region are Shirvan, Daghestan, Kuba, Kazak rug. Caucasian Rugs are probably the most widely collected type of Tribal rugs. The strongest market for Caucasian rugs has to be Italy and Germany who appreciates these rugs for their tribal and primitive designs.
Most Caucasian rugs are woven in regions of Kuba, Dagestan, Shirvan, Talish and Baku in the East, and Ghanjeh, Kazak, and Karabagh in the southwest Caucasus. While some Caucasian carpets tend to feature floral designs, their style or rendering is usually highly abstract or geometric tribal design, with considerable emphasis on rich and varied color.
We at rugs and more carry the largest and most comprehensive collection of these authentic works of art and we have been instrumental in assisting some of the important collections of caucasian rugs around the world.
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One of the most classic Caucasian rugs and a must in every collection.
5’11” x 4’0″
An unusually large Kazak format rug with excellent pile condition. Woven Ca. 1880.
8’3″ x 5’1″
This 17th Century Classical Oushak carpet design is an superb example of the best-known group of classical Ottoman workshop weavers. In the 16th century, carpet weaving was revered as one of the highest forms of art by the Turkish court. Weavers of that time had tremendous resources at their disposal in creating objects of the utmost beauty. These carpets are made to reflect the power and refinement of the Ottoman Empire. Turkish design traditions, dictated that all designs were endless in the eyes of God, and that an artist was only able to capture a small portion of any given design for earthly representation by confining the repeat within a border. The power of these carpets was appreciated by the rulers of the East as well as by the noble, aristocratic and richer classes of Europe. Beginning in the early 16th century, Oushak Medallion carpets were featured in European portraits to signify the wealth, stature and taste of the sitter. One of the most famous of these early depictions is a posthumous portrait of Henry VIII and his family attributed to Lucas de Heere, circa 1570.
12′ x 15’8″
The most tribal of the Caucasians with a modern Gabbeh look.
5’10” x 3’11”