GENDJE STAR OF WISDOM, Southern Caucasian
4' 3" x 5' 4" Circa 1875 Price: $13,000
(Connoisseur-Caliber)
This inspired collectible rug presents an original combination of elements, using traditional patterning to express an inspiring personal vision. Infused with an astonishing range of golds, this luminous rug captures the brilliance of a star-filled sky as if their general radiance flooded out the nighttime. The latticework field pattern harboring a perfectly drawn star in each hexagonal space continues beyond the borders. Magnificently wrought carnelian, rare forest green, teal, and cobalt glow against the naturally dyed aureate background in the field and on the browns in the secondary borders. Hexagonal shapes in the main border, which are ‘unresolved’ in this mesmerizing folkloric piece, change shape subtly within their frame.