Kazak Prayer Rug Rippon Boswell Lot 34

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This Kazak Prayer Rug is included in Kazak Rugs: Colored Interstice Rug Borders - A Theory

Kazak Prayer Rug Rippon Boswell Lot 34

The Rippon Boswell Kazak Prayer Rug

KAZAK PRAYER RUG, ca. 130x119 cms
South Western Caucasus, Kazak region, 19th cent.
Sale of 28th March 1992, # 34
Result: DM 81,200
http://www.rippon-boswell-wiesbaden.de/highlights/high-kauk-e.htm
This rug is piblished as plate 264 in Eiland & Eiland's Oriental Rugs A Complete Guide, page 273. I also believe it is featured in Ralph Kaffel's Caucasian Prayer Rugs.When I finish unpacking my library I will check.
Yes this is the rug on the cover of Caucasian Prayer Rugs as well as plate 18. Citing Detlef Maltzahn a possible attribution of Fachralo but Kaffel notes a relationship to Anatolian rugs and Lori Pambaks.

Ralph Kaffel Caucasian Prayer Rugs. London, UK. Laurence King in Association with Hali, 1998.

"Prayer Rugs" by Ralph Kaffel was a pleasant surprise. Instead of just another pseudo-scientific rehash of someone else’s field work Kaffel has presented us with a lesson in connoisseurship. All too often someone will read all the literature and present their distillation as fact. In "Prayer Rugs" Kaffel show us his sources and when there is disagreement he shows us the differences in opinion. In the discussion of Daghestan Prayer rugs he even gives us the opinions of auction house specialists such as Mary Jo Otsi and Jo Kris. This book is not ethnology or anthropology it is about collecting Caucasian Prayer rugs and in that light it gets a solid 5 stars.

For Further Reading:

Persian Rugs and Carpet

Turkish Rugs

Turkmen Rugs

JBOC's Notes on the Bible

Southwest Asia Time Line

Caucasian Rugs

Thanks and best wishes,

J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

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The Rippon Boswell Kazak Prayer Rug

Ralph Kaffel Caucasian Prayer Rugs. London, UK. Laurence King in Association with Hali, 1998.

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