ISTANBUL, CIRCA 1920
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A VERY FINE SILK AND METAL THREAD ZAREH KOUM KAPI RUG
ISTANBUL, CIRCA 1920
The blackcurrant-red field with a delicate scrolling palmette vine issuing delicate flowerheads, leaves and arabesques, inscription cartouche panel above, the shaded moss-green mihrab arch with two baluster vases issuing delicate floral vine with perching birds, in an ivory border of scrolling arabesque and palmette floral vine around three calligraphic cartouches between blackcurrant-red and shaded pink reciprocal skittle-pattern and apricot meandering floral vine stripes, localised areas of wear, slight loss at each end
6ft.2in. x 4ft.3in. (188cm. x 130cm.)
ISTANBUL, CIRCA 1920
The blackcurrant-red field with a delicate scrolling palmette vine issuing delicate flowerheads, leaves and arabesques, inscription cartouche panel above, the shaded moss-green mihrab arch with two baluster vases issuing delicate floral vine with perching birds, in an ivory border of scrolling arabesque and palmette floral vine around three calligraphic cartouches between blackcurrant-red and shaded pink reciprocal skittle-pattern and apricot meandering floral vine stripes, localised areas of wear, slight loss at each end
6ft.2in. x 4ft.3in. (188cm. x 130cm.)