rug

rug
Culture
Baluchi people
Creation date
1870-1880
Materials
wool
Dimensions
38 x 60 in. | 96.5 x 152.4 cm.
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Credit line
Colonel Jeff W. Boucher Collection
Accession number
1996.28
Gallery Label

This rug, one of the rarest and most exciting pieces in the Boucher Collection has stylized paisley motifs filling the ivory-colored field. Apart from prayer rugs of the 20th century, only a few rugs of this field design are known.

Note the three upside-down animal figures in the lower left-hand corner of the ivory field.

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