Sarkisla kurdish rug, 310 x 140 cm. Outstanding colour, blue weft, extensive off-set knotting. Battered and worn, but intact and restorable. Only four other examples of this type are recorded in carpet literature, and this is the largest, with four full medallions on the centre line. See closely comparable carpets in the Ballard Collection (St. Louis Museum) and Bruggemann/Boehmer see http://www.rippon-boswell-wiesbaden.de/en/results_catalogue/auction/6/#v...