(Connoisseur-Caliber) ("New Arrivals Gallery") 19th-century Fachralo Kazaks with their iconic large-scale designs, cosmological geometric symbolism, and color palettes so emotive that they inspired the early Impressionist master painters, are a powerful reflection of the stunning visual clarity and awe-inspiring vistas of the high-mountain landscape home where Armenian weavers long ago wove these culturally significant artworks for local domestic use as floor coverings and wall hangings. Their fierce sense of independence and constant artistic striving yielded a stunning degree of innovation in that era, as we can see in this ecstatically colored and uniquely designed Connoisseur-Caliber Fachralo. At 150+ years of age, the colors remain intensely vibrant and viscerally enchanting, like a treasure chest of color, tempting with jewel tones of ruby red, jade, lapis, solar yellow, amber, sky blue, delicate rose, and even very rare aubergine. The rectangular reserve in prized jade green bears two decagonal medallions, made electrifying with striking hooked borders that represent herds of animals, with cruciform centers dominated by double Ram’s-horn motifs, historically important tribal motifs with multiple layers of meaning from the earthly to the divine realms. This magnificent centerpiece is greatly enhanced and symbolically sheltered by a frame of striking Wheels of Life in ever-alluring color combinations, a bold, elementalized main border with zigzagging, serrated leaves bearing tuning-fork-shaped palmettes, a pair of luminous sky-blue secondary borders that pop out of the composition, and, finally, an inner Mountains of Security border. The tiniest motifs act as a fragrant spice, with Diamonds of Strength in a fantastical range of scales spontaneously placed throughout the empty spaces, stimulating a sense of depth and dimensionality. This breathtaking masterwork is certain to thoroughly transform a fine space or transfix an aficionado for a lifetime as a highly collectible work of folk art preserved on the wall.

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