Shahsavan antique soumak bag section (40 x 49cm)

40 x 49 cm = 1ft 4" x 1ft 8"

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.

• circa 1900

Ref 15603