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A CAIRENE CARPET
EGYPT, 16TH CENTURY
The dusty red field with overall scrolling palmette leafy and flowering vine around a central green roundel containing quatrefleur sprays radiating from a dusty red arabesque central roundel, the blue and red spandrels similar, in a dusty red border of part rosettes flanking large blue cartouches containing radiating palmettes and serrated leaves alternating with similar dark green roundels between grass green rosette and reciprocal pattern stripes, extensively repiled
24ft.8in. x 12ft.3in. (750cm. x 373cm.)
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