The Oliveira Three Medallion Shirvan

I spotted this Shirvan rug on www.cloudband.com offered by my dear friend J. C. Oliveira of Macau. Trusted Resource List - Rug & Carpet Dealers Outside The U.S. - Jewel of the Caucasus. Arcade - Inventory Page Email jewels_ofthe_caucasus@yahoo.com Web pages www.asianart.com/jewels_of_the_caucasus/

The Oliveira Antique Caucasian Shirvan Rug with Three Medallions

• Size: 189 x 123 cm

• Region: West Asia > Caucasus > Northeast Caucasus > Shirvan

• Type: Rugs and Carpets

• Date/Period: 19th century : late

• Materials: soft wool, natural dyes

• Structure: Knots: 59 (v) x 33 (h) = 1,947 / dm2

• Condition: Very good, with good pile all over.

• Full Description
  A very nice blue Shirvan rug with a vertical row of three lozenge medallions with geometricized flowers inside. At the lozenges' ends "a radial ornament can be seen which recalls old Egyptian and Persian royal insignia" (Ulrich Schurmann, Caucasian Rugs, Poolesville, 1990, pp. 196). The main border is a traditional ‘crab' border design. The small diamond border is an older border type.

Literature: See somewhat similar rugs or medallions on: Ulrich Schürmann, Caucasian Rugs, Poolesville, 1990, plate 66; E. Gans-Ruedin, Caucasian Carpets, Thames and Hudson, London, 1986, pp. 204-205; Harold M. Keshishian (ed.), The Treasure of the Caucasus - Rugs from American Collections, Washington D.C.1992, plate 7; Richard E. Wright, Rugs and Flatweaves of the Transcaucasus, Pittsburgh, 1980, plate 24.

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Thanks and best wishes,

J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

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