PERPEDIL
Eastern Caucasian Antique Rug

(Connoisseur-Caliber) Rugs from the remote region of Perpedil in greater Caucasian Daghestan, roughly 30 kilometers north of Kuba, offer some of the most distinctive Caucasian designs that are very finely woven and known for their often stately appearance counterbalanced by asymmetrical improvisations and sly flashes of color. This rug’s versatile dimensions contain a pulsating pattern replete with adventurously imagined ram’s horn devices, snowflake-like rosettes, and archetypal firebird forms. Despite the small space afforded by the field and borders, no motif feels restricted or crowded. The more typical Kufic border pattern has been eschewed in lieu of bracketed rosettes that course through opaque zones of abrash color-texture shifts designed to animate this piece. Reveling in crisp clarity due to its high knot count, this nearly 150-year-old weaving is a visionary window into the richly evocative relationship tribal artists experienced with totemic symbolism and inspired abstractions from nature.

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