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Kazak rug

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Red-brown rectangular rug with fringed edges. The rug has a blue outer border with small beige and orange geometric shapes. Inside the blue border is a beige border with small blue, orange, and red geometric shapes. The main field of the rug is red-brown with three large diamonds outlined in beige. The diamonds are blue and beige with orange and blue details and intersect in the middle. The central diamond has a blue background. The two outer diamonds have a dark blue background. The diamond shapes are outlined in beige with geometric patterns. The middle section of the rug has a border of small geometric shapes in blue, beige, orange, and red. The background behind the rug is light gray. The artist and title of the rug is "Kazak".

Artwork Details

Date
mid-19th century
Medium
Wool
Culture
Russian
Dimensions
599 × 411 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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