English: Armenian rug from Artsakh. Although the inscription is vague, it does serve to confirm the attribution of this rug to Armenian workmanship. The white-field bands flanking the central medallion are traceable to a series of large eighteenth-century rugs with sunburst and enlarged palmette figures. By the late nineteenth century, it is common to see only repeated sunburst medallions. It is instructive to compare the differences in color and subsidiary detail between this medallion and the example from the Virginia Museum dated 1860-1870.