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Antique caucasian kuba prayer rug. Rare type. Kufic border. Inscribed and dated 1240=1825. All good natural colors. No chemical dyes. Rough condition with very low pile and slight damage as shown 4' x 4'5"
My Turkish friend reads the dating as Saban 1240.
Schaʿbān (arabic شعبان, DMG Šaʿbān) is the 8th month.
I think your two rugs from the Eastern Caucasus are really very attractive, particularly the yellow ground Kuba example from your previous post. Thank you for showing them. However, I tend to be a little cautious when it comes to accepting early date attributions for this group, partly due to the work of rug scholars such as Richard E. Wright who wrote extensively on the ‘Kustar’ craft industry program, which began in the late nineteenth century and produced new “Caucasian” rug designs and adapted existing ones for commercial purposes, and Ian Bennett through his book, Oriental Rugs: Volume 1 Caucasian. It seems that even most major auction house experts have become more conservative in their date attributions. I also question how much we can rely on inwoven dates, which seem to be relatively common in this group of rugs? Nevertheless, there is always room for other viewpoints and opinions. In this regard it is said that the late Harold Keshishian, when asked about the age of a rug, would sometimes reply, “I think this piece is older than we think it is.”
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