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Kashkuli Millefleur
Kashkuli Millefleur is the Western name for the rugs known in Iran as Nazem, the design of the Kashkuli tribe of the Qashqai confederacy: a vase on a mound from which a mass of small flowers fills the field, usually under a prayer arch carried on half-cypresses. Auction houses catalogue them as Qashqai or Kashkuli Qashqai millefleurs prayer rugs, and Sotheby's traces the design to Mughal Indian millefleur prayer rugs of the eighteenth century.
Also Kashkouli Millefleur · Kashkouli millefleurs · Qashqai millefleur · Qashqai millefleurs · Kashkuli Qashqai millefleurs
See also Nazem, Kashkuli, Millefleur, Mehrab (prayer design), Qashqai
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