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A PANDERMA RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1880

The shaded burgundy field with a double interlaced angular black and white lattice issuing flowering vine and enclosing palmettes and rosettes, in a charcoal-grey border of similar split palmettes and arabesque interlace with flowering vine between ivory floral meander stripes, even wear, slight loss at each end, very minor tinting
Approximately 5ft.8in. x 4ft.4in. (173cm. x 132cm.)

Warp: cotton, white, Z2S, clearly depressed, lightly undulating
Weft: 2 shoots, one slightly undulating, the second strongly undulating, cotton, ivory, Z3S
Pile: wool, Z2, symmetrical inclining to the left, H4.1 x V6.3/cm.
Sides: foundation weft bound together on the left with 4 and on the right with 5 additional warp threads

Provenance
Acquired 17 September 1940 as a "Karabagh" for DM590
Literature
Bernheimer, Otto: Alte Teppich des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts der Firma L. Bernheimer, Munich, 1959, pl.90 (catalogued as Karabagh)

Lot Essay

The design of this rug is nearly a direct copy of an arabesque lattice rug formerly in the Schöller Collection, Berlin, illustrated in Erdmann, Kurt: Der orientalische Knpfteppich, Tbingen, 1975, fig.95.

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