Shahsavan antique soumak bag (45 x 49cm)

45 x 49 cm = 1ft 6" x 1ft 7"

This Caucasian antique soumak bagface is a  section from a mafrash portmanteau trunk once used as a suitcase on the march and containing bedding in settlement. They are popularly attributed to the Shah Savan peoples of Southern Caucasus.

• early 20th cent

Ref 15557