late 19th century, 462 x 136 cm, East Caucasus

This long Kuba has a strikingly rare design. The dense repeat of tree shapes and palmettes that covers the midnight blue ground of the field is drawn in the geometric style of the Caucasus. Red diamonds filled with a star are arranged in an offset pattern in the similarly blue-ground main border. A small-format comparative example identical in field design was published by Eder and described as a “Chichi”.

Very well preserved except for minimal restored areas, a high pile and the original finishes all around.

EDER, DORIS, Orientteppiche. Volume 1: Kaukasische Teppiche. Munich 1979, no. 364